[cool pic] yesterday's sunrise on mars

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i would not mind a large, high res print of this pic for my home.

From the location of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, above the Martian arctic circle, the sun does not set during the peak of the Martian summer.

This period of maximum solar energy is past -- on Sol 86, the 86th Martian day after the Phoenix landing, the sun fully set behind a slight rise to the north for about half an hour.

This red-filter image taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager, shows the sun rising on the morning of sol 90, Aug. 25, 2008, the last day of the Phoenix nominal mission.

The image was taken at 51 minutes past midnight local solar time during the slow sunrise that followed a 75 minute "night." The skylight in the image is light scattered off atmospheric dust particles and ice crystals.

The setting sun does not mean the end of the mission. In late July, the Phoenix Mission was extended through September, rather than the 90-sol duration originally planned as the prime mission.

The mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University

Phoenix News

 

[Mode]

k

 

[Crash_Site]

Color?

 

[MeSlayer]

why does it look B&W

or does mars sky look like that

 

[Procell]

ofn

 

[Vanster]

that's a sunSET

 

[HaPpY]

color is red
except the aliens, theyre green, duh

 

[NoFiX]

would be cool if there was like a little animal running around up there in the photo or something aliens

 

[burtrennalds]

looks pretty fuckin bland to me... whats so great about that picture?

 

[Breadman86]

that's a sunSET

The image was taken at 51 minutes past midnight local solar time during the slow sunrise that followed a 75 minute "night." The skylight in the image is light scattered off atmospheric dust particles and ice crystals.

 

[NoFiX]

it's just cool knowing what a planet that hasn't been ruined by humans looks like.

 

[drop_]

that's a sunSET

you wouldnt have clicked if i had put sunset for the thread title.

 

[HaPpY]

if you raise the brightness and contrast on that image you will see grass

 

[Travace]

The actual pic itself is not really that cool at all

the content of what the pic is and the fact that we can even get that picture is pretty fucking cool and amazing if you ask me.

Its pretty fucking bad ass we can get a mars sunset POV like that now a days. I cant wait for the day to come when TV stations stop all broadcasts to announce we have landed Humans on Mars

 

[Dangerdoggie]

I'm pretty sure you could do that with photoshop.

 

[drop_]

The actual pic itself is not really that cool at all

the content of what the pic is and the fact that we can even get that picture is pretty fucking cool and amazing if you ask me.

the technology behind it is the main coolness element for me, especially that it's from yesterday. but i also like the austere aesthetic, and the fact that on one hand it looks like a normal boring sunrise/set but also it's fucking mars and the sun never looks that small for us on earth.

Its pretty fucking bad ass we can get a mars sunset POV like that now a days. I cant wait for the day to come when TV stations stop all broadcasts to announce we have landed Humans on Mars

word.

 

[burtrennalds]

 

[Data]

Nice image.

Not something I'd want to hang on my wall though.

 

[MeSlayer]

they obviously ps'ed out the mars base

 

[burtrennalds]

twart