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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Soda Ant, post: 4911701, member: 13460&quot;]Today Mars makes its closest approach to Earth, coming to within 62 million kilometers and outshining everything in the sky except for the sun, moon, and Venus. It won&#039;t be this close again until 2035.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in 2012, has several cameras with varying resolutions and fields of view. There&#039;s a resolution test target mounted on the exterior of the rover that&#039;s used to calibrate these cameras. One of the test targets is a 1909 VDB Lincoln cent, so this is literally a penny that&#039;s out of this world. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what the test target looks like (photo taken before launch).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/QDDOrFg_YcgWEmYV9KBaU2W6dcNZ3wVik2vFZGPoTRhBVS_FGB-biiC3Q44nUo0k1B1OSB9Ts59u4bBY5wZFSKOKk4aeAluQYeuNTg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>And here it is on Mars:</p><p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rTSgn.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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