Blue Martian Sunset

Blue Martian Sunset

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-427

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Blue
• Martian
• Sunset
• nasa
• rover
• sunrise
• mars
• space
• opportunity
• spirit
• jpl

[rich22221]

i want to be on mars :(

[jeremifrancisco1]

is this real???? or made up...... Is it the real speed of the sunset in mars???

[takeYOURreadstep]

@jeremifrancisco1 i beleve its a little sped up but this is 100% real.

[YppolitKorrektny]

Какое Солнце там маленькое!

[UnearthlySound]

It doesn't matter if there are simulated frames - that's still what it would look like. I thought it was beautiful. The blueness is caused by the fact that the Martian atmosphere is composed of different gasses to the Earths.

[inspiredartist2391]

@ParaglidingManiac You know how when the sun sets on Earth, the atmosphere turns red/orange? Same principle on Mars except for the sky turns blue instead of red. It all has to do with the amount of dust, molecules in the air, and etc.

[tr011]

@jeremifrancisco1 It's made with several pictures from the Opportunity Rover, The Mars Rovers sends pictures, not video, the pictures where put all together and fixed with some "fake frames" to make a smooth video.

I don't think that the picture is in real time, even when Mars Diameter is about the half of earth diameter, it's day is arround 6 hours more longer than earth's

[DemonEyesSan]

@jeremifrancisco1 no it's accelerated,the speed is just like it is on earth,the pictures however,are real taken by the rovers sent to Mars.

[xenalaskan]

The music is wrong. There is no Christmas on Mars.

[DangerousD6969]

@m3sca1

the surface is red