Look at the sequence starting with this image.
There are two very bright stars rising in the dawn light.
Using Solar System simulator, I strongly suspect they are Earth and Jupiter... look at the following comparison with one subframe rotated/rescaled at the same scale:

Yes, the data tracking site listed "Jupiter - Earth Observations"

Thanks, Sunspot. This make me happy and I cannot resist with this celebration image (a dejà vue for many, but now with a planetary partner!)...


The inset is a "super-res" average of 8 single frames, enlarged by 2.5.

This post has been edited by dilo: Jan 31 2006, 09:08 PM

and...AND...according to Jim - Venus at some point. That would make Mars, Venus, Earth and Jupiter visible in a single image

Doug

Damn, Doug, you are right!!!
I didn't notice because was in the glow, but with some enhanching is exactly where should be (left bottom / rotated img)... What a portrait!
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Magnifico, Dilo!
But I want color ! Colore, ha capito? I want to see my blue home!

This is for you, Shaka (good italian, where do you live, with more precision?)

According to the following URL using the view from Mars: http://space.jpl.nasa.gov web page to draw the view map from Mars:



According to the above view map, the Earth point might be in the middle of three bright points.


Rodolfo

Giallo, azzura, rosso - Bella, bella, bella!
With precision: When I first wake up, I can see Mokoli'i in Kaneohe Bay.
In the past: A farmhouse between Marina di Pisa and San Piero a Grado.

E' tu? Dove nell' Italia Centrale?
Ciao

Thanks, but it was a joke (obviously, Jupiter isn't red!)
This is a more serious version...I worked to brings up Venus (in the low/left corner) and,Rodolfo, Earth is between the two! ...enjoy...

Thanks for that color image Dilo. The clouds look really dense here.


- Bob Clark

Wow, what an inspiring image. I started pondering the angles and opened up my copy of The Sky. If I were to go out into my back yard tomorrow morning at 2:08am EST, assuming a completely clear horizon and perfect sky conditions, I could see Jupiter and Mars on opposite sides of the sky. Jupiter would be ~2.5 degrees above the eastern horizon, and Mars ~2.5 degrees above the west. And there above we have the same scene from Mars' POV. Cool.

I've just been loving the rovers' astrophotograpy!

As cool and inspiring as these new images are, they do show the limitations of trying to eek out super-res data from these already processed and compressed images. In the inset Earth looks to have an almost circular disk but that can't be with a phase angle (from Mars) of about 100 degrees or so:

Earth as seen from Mars January 31st 2006

But, very cool!

Airbag

Correct, Airbag. The PanCam pixel is slightly larger that apparent Earth size, so cannot resolve it! I tried to find also the Moon (should be about 15 pixels below Earth in the enlarged image) but, as usual, is too weak...
Thanks for the kind words.

Now on TPS site... thanks for this honor, Emily!
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000446/