A blue sunset on Mars

Four Curiosity images of a blue Martian sunset on 15 April 2015 — NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS, PIA19400. Original animation resized; four images acquired over 6 minutes 51 seconds.

The blue glow around the Sun comes from the way fine Martian dust scatters light. Curiosity photographed it from the planet’s surface.

Curiosity’s single-frame view of sunset in Gale Crater — NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS, PIA19400; calibrated colour photograph.

This is a sunset on Mars.
The blue glow around the Sun comes from the way fine Martian dust scatters light. Curiosity photographed it from the planet’s surface.
Same Sun. Different sky.

A blue sunset on Mars

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