Why does Earth appear blurry in images taken from Mars?

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On CNN, I saw a picture of Earth from mars. Earth looked blurry.
Why is that?
 
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Just a bad focus.

You'd think if it could shoot Mars someone would put a focus on it. I'm not sure as to why they don't...
 

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