WASHINGTON: NASA's first mini satellites to travel into deep space have
beamed back an image of the Earth and the Moon, which appear as a 'pale blue
dot' and a tiny white speck floating in space.
NASA set a new distance record for CubeSats on May 8 when a pair of CubeSats - tiny satellites - called Mars Cube One (MarCO) reached one million kilometre from Earth.
One of the CubeSats, called MarCO-B used a fisheye camera to snap its first photo on May 9. That photo is part of the process used by the engineering team to confirm the spacecraft's high-gain antenna has properly unfolded.
NASA set a new distance record for CubeSats on May 8 when a pair of CubeSats - tiny satellites - called Mars Cube One (MarCO) reached one million kilometre from Earth.
One of the CubeSats, called MarCO-B used a fisheye camera to snap its first photo on May 9. That photo is part of the process used by the engineering team to confirm the spacecraft's high-gain antenna has properly unfolded.
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