Viral 'Photo' of Earth, Venus and Jupiter Seen From Mars Is a Computer Image
Viral 'Photo' of Earth, Venus and Jupiter Seen From Mars Is a Computer Image On 2/24/21 at 11:30 AM EST Since NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on the surface of Mars last week, social media users have claimed the rover took a photo of Earth, Venus, and Jupiter lined up in Mars' skyline. But these claims are false. The image was probably computer-generated using planetarium software in order to recreate an event in which the three planets did indeed align from Mars' perspective. But that happened eleven years ago, and no-one got a photo of it. One tweet, posted on Tuesday, showed the pho...