NEWS | May 1, 2019
What Does a Sunrise-Sunset Look Like on Mars?
Sunset at Gusev Crater: The Sun sinks below the horizon in this stunning panoramic view captured by NASA's Spirit Mars rover in 2005. NASA/JPL/Texas A&M/Cornell | › Full image and caption
NASA's Viking 1 lander first showed humans what a sunset looked like on Mars in 1976. Several more Red Planet robots have since sent back a variety of views of Martian sunrises and sunsets.
Some color-corrected, blue-hued images preview what human Mars explorers might one day see while relaxing after a hard day's work on the fourth planet:
First Twilight: This Viking 1 image is one of first images of a sunset as seen from the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/LaRC | › Full image and caption
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NEWS | May 1, 2019
What Does a Sunrise-Sunset Look Like on Mars?
Tiny sun rises on the horizon of a Martian plain. A robotic arm is visible in the foreground.
Sunset at Gusev Crater: The Sun sinks below the horizon in this stunning panoramic view captured by NASA's Spirit Mars rover in 2005. NASA/JPL/Texas A&M/Cornell | › Full image and caption
NASA's Viking 1 lander first showed humans what a sunset looked like on Mars in 1976. Several more Red Planet robots have since sent back a variety of views of Martian sunrises and sunsets.
Some color-corrected, blue-hued images preview what human Mars explorers might one day see while relaxing after a hard day's work on the fourth planet:
Rocky red landscape in fading light.
First Twilight: This Viking 1 image is one of first images of a sunset as seen from the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/LaRC | › Full image and caption
Viking 2 captured a Martian sunrise on June 14, 1978.
NASA's Spirit Mars rover captured this famous view of the Sun sinking below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars on May 9, 2005.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured another blue view of the Sun sinking below the Martian horizon; the imaging team made into a short movie in 2015.
And, in 2019, NASA's Insight lander returned several views of Martian sunrises and sunsets that also captured parts of the spacecraft on a dusty plain.
Because Mars is farther from the Sun than Earth, the Sun appears only about two-thirds the size we see when we watch sunsets here on Earth.
Sunset Sequence: NASA's Curiosity rover watches the Sun sink below the horizon at Gale Crater in 2015. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Texas A&M Univ. | › Full image and caption
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