In the photo you can dimly recognize the continent of South America
For the first time, humans can see what our planet looks like from Mars, thanks to the camera placed on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft orbiting Mars.
The image released on Thursday by NASA also includes Jupiter and some of its larger moons because Earth and Jupiter were in a straight line for a viewer from Mars on the day the image was taken - May 8.
The Mars Global Surveyor has been continuously photographing the surface of Mars for over six years, so photographing Earth was a break from the routine.
Michael Malin of Malin Space Systems in San Diego, which operates the Mars Global Surveyor's camera, said in a statement that the photography made it possible to look at the landscape from a broader perspective. "This image gives us a new perspective on the cosmic neighborhood where our planet is one of many."
The image shows the Earth in the form of a half moon or rather half of the Earth, where the bright area in the upper part of the image shows clouds over the center and east of the South American continent, and the dark area includes Central America and the Gulf of Mexico, and you also see clouds over the north of the South American continent.
The image shows the half moon facing Earth, as well as Jupiter and three of its moons: Callisto, Ganymede and Europa.
To view all the images - including the one where you see the Earth and Jupiter together
