Interest one-upped the Spirit rover through shooting a view of each Earth and the Moon, which it did on January 31, 2014. The picture, captured through the NASA rover’s Mastcam, was once taken round 80 mins after sundown, at which level Earth was once the brightest object within the sky. The Purple Planet was once 99 million miles (160 million kilometers) from Earth when the picture was once taken.
Through zooming in and including some background darkness (see annotated symbol above), the Moon is also noticed. “A human observer with commonplace imaginative and prescient, if status on Mars, may simply see Earth and the moon as two distinct, vibrant night stars,” according to NASA.
