Earth and Moon Photographed by Mars Express

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Express at July 17, 2003 12:00 PM

The European Mars Express took time out from its journey to Mars to turn around and snap a picture of Earth and the Moon. The picture is not only pleasing to the eye but thrilling for project scientists, as it represents the first observational data to be sent home by the probe. Along with other data recently collected and returned, it shows the spacecraft's working as expected.