Earth from a distance of 1,000,000 kilometers

in #science7 years ago

Launched on May 5 Mars ** «Insight» ** via Mars Cube One of the satellites (Marco-A and Marco-B)

** I made myself out of our planet from a million miles away. **

Well, guys, see for yourself:

** To make it clearer, here's a small scheme with marks **

this photo was named in a tribute to "Voyager 1", which sent pictures of the earth in 1990 a distance of 6 billion kilometers. There the Earth looks like a pale blue dot in one pixel.

** Then the picture is more cheerful, of course. But still, the fragile and small planet we have. **