Earthrise, Gusev Crater On Earth it is 3:20 AM Universal Time on
June 30, 2010. Due to the speed of light, a message from Mars
would not reach Earth until 3:32 UT. This is the exact view you
would see looking East from Gusev Crater, Mars. The Sun is
shortly due to rise at the center of the frame. Rising ahead of
the Sun, the bright starlike object at top centre is Earth. All
of human history, the struggle to understand the world, has
taken place on that tiny dot. This is a view that no human being
has seen before. The bright object between Earth and the horizon
is Jupiter. This month the largest planet is on the far side of
the Sun, making it appear among the inner planets. Uranus, just
above the horizon, is too faint to be seen. From the vantage
point of Mars one could easily view Earth, Venus and Mercury
circling the Sun. If there were intelligent life on Mars they
would long ago have figured out the Copernican model, something
Earth beings didn't accept until barely 500 years ago. Travel to
the Moon and Ma