Not the prettiest image of Earth, but if you were on Mars, you’d see this #Mars #space #astronomy

This isn’t the most impressive image of Earth from space, but image yourself pioneering on the Red Planet, looking back at your far-away planet-of-origin. Life in a colony will be hard, a mixture of tedium and terror, so are you homesick?

Look again over several weeks and – with the aid of binoculars – you’ll see a little white dot orbiting around a bigger dot. That’s our Moon, orbiting Earth. ESA

Thanks to the European Space Agency

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No matter how noble the aspirations, how alluring the technologies, colonizing requires individual intelligence, ingenuity, and courage. First, they must survive.

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