http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-004

There is an immobility/stillness in it that reminds me of some shots from "2001 A Space Odissey"

Thank you ofnuts. The image truly overwhelms. Thinking about the immensity of the universe always makes me admire it more and more.

I actually thought the moon was smaller and farther away in relation to the earth!

For the relative sizes, see Wikipedia For the distance, well, you cannot evaluate the distance in that singe shot. It just happens that seen from Mars the Moon and the Earth were more or less along the same axis. You can't see that the moon is roughly 380.000km closer. But Martians can see that the Moon swings around the Earth by approximately 30 Earth diameters.

What I learned from this picture's comments is at the moon is actually fairly dark... almost as dark as tarmac. It looks bright because the night sky is even darker...