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The following is a photograph taken recently by the Spirit rover on the surface of Mars. It's a sunset, and the "evening star" in the Martian twilight is the next planet inward: Earth. It's a cliché, and not quite as profound as the single-pixel snapshot that Voyager I sent us of our home, from 4 billion miles away as it left the solar system, but this kinda puts things in perspective, eh?