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.
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.
Just as colors are made more dramatic in sunsets on Earth, Martian sunsets would appear bluish to human observers watching from the red planet. Fine dust makes the blue near the Sun’s part of the sky much more prominent, while normal daylight makes the Red Planet’s familiar rusty dust color more prominent.
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