Mars Odyssey takes picture of Earth to warm up for Mars mission
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft recently turned its camera toward home and took a picture - a shot of a faint crescent Earth - to help calibrate an experiment package as it heads toward Mars. The image was taken as part of the calibration process for the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS)...
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