This image was taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. At the time the image was taken, Earth was 142 million kilometers from Mars, giving the HiRISE image a scale of 142 kilometers (88 miles) per pixel, an Earth diameter of about 90 pixels and a moon diameter of 24 pixels.

It’s a makes you think doesn’t it? Let’s enjoy and have fun while we’re here on this little planet.

NASA has got of hang of new technology. When brands all around the world are talking about social press rooms, NASA takes the concept a step further. Astronaut Greg Chamitoff, aboard the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth, is taking the ordinary mans question on life up there. All you have to do is post a video response to this video above and then people on earth will help him sort out which questions to answer. BoingBoing posted it first.

In case you missed it there is now a lander called Phoenix on Mars. The thing landed 17:07 local time on Mars (what the hell that now is). 

This view of one of the footpads of NASA’s three-legged Phoenix Mars Lander shows a solid surface at the spacecraft’s landing site. As the legs touched down on the surface of Mars, they kicked up some loose material on top of the footpad, but overall, the surface is unperturbed. 

Why am I writing about this on a blog about communication?

Cause it’s innovation – and innovation triggers ideas. 

(In this case a spoof ad for Öhlins