“We need to take care of this pale blue dot, because there is no spare planet”
The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared interesting pictures taken by the automatic interplanetary station Mars Express. In these photos, our planet and its natural satellite are nothing more than a large white dot intersected by a smaller white dot.
And while it may not be the most impressive image from space, the Mars Express photos show the distance between Earth and the Red Planet and how difficult it is to get vehicles to Mars.
the Mars Express probe “spying” on the tiny Earth and Moon from the orbit of Mars, photo
One of the researchers Jorge Hernandez Bernal described the pictures rather emotionally:
In these simple images from Mars Express, the Earth is the size of an ant seen from 100 meters away, and we are all there. Although we’ve seen images like this before, it’s still worth humbly stopping and thinking: we need to take care of this pale blue dot, because there is no spare planet.
The images show the Earth and its Moon on May 15, 21 and 27 and June 2, 2023, respectively, covering more than half of the Moon’s monthly orbit around the Earth.
