Let's give some needed perspective to politics

If you were standing on the surface of Mars, all the politics in the world would be confined to this little pinprick.

How did somebody take that picture....oh yea...politics prioritized space.

Well the obvious answer would be that a NASA mars rover took the picture.

But alas,  like most of what comes over the internet,  seeing is not believing...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/10/an-unreal-mars-skyline/#.VV0qBkYgQ3g

However,  the rover did actually take this one...