Earth from Mars -- photo

Nice processed photo that has been filtered etc so much, you can't even see stars in the back ground. The write up says that the colour saturation was processed significantly.

Yes, that is a nice tease picture. It would be better, I think, if we could see the original or some faccimily thereof. I wonder if there's a link to a site with better resolution.

Relevant photos - processed and original:

• Mars Global Surveyor Image of Earth, Moon, and Jupiter

Also:

• The H.G. Wells Society
• NASA's Mars Exploration Program

THANX

Here is the unprocessed picture

Playing with the balance, and gamma, I got this picture.

What is interesting is that we are getting light reflections quite far away from the atmosphere

First thought is solar wind on the magnetosphere, but the shape is not consistent with what I associate with the magnetosphere.

From NASA, their depiction of the Magnetosphere:

Cool!

I think you are right! It is due to the magnetosphere. The light reflections from the sun would be strongest on the windward side of the earth (closest to the sun), and would not necessarily show the whole magnetosphere.

Interesting pictures.

Sadly like almost all of NASA photos, they are heavily re-processed, to "eliminate anomalies" if an eagle-eyed enthusiast spots some new anomaly, and publishes it.

Kind Regards....

Funny how even the angle of the moon has been inverted from the unprocessed picture.