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Earth and Moon seen at twilight from Mars

This view of the twilight sky and Martian horizon taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes Earth as the brightest point of light in the night sky. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU

TORONTO – If there’s ever going to be a human colony on Mars, home — our pale, blue dot — will seem very far away.

The Mars rover Curiosity imaged Earth at twilight on Jan. 31, giving us some idea about what our home would look like from the Red Planet.

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Earth and the moon are seen as two bright evening stars, somewhat similar to what Venus looks like from Earth.

Curiosity was about 160 million kilometres from Earth when it took the photograph.

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