AI Imagines How Sun Looks from Mars

Aug 08, 2023, 12:05 IST

WION Desk

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Manish Pandey

In 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander showed humans what a sunset looks like on the red planet, for the first time.

A Martian sunrise was captured by Viking 2 on June 14, 1978.

On May 9, 2005, NASA’s Spirit Mars rover captured the sun sinking below the rim of Gusev Crater on the red planet.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured the sun sinking below the Martian horizon in 2015.

NASA’s Insight Lander returned several views of Martian sunsets and sunrises in 2019, which were also captured as parts of the spacecraft on a dusty plain.

On Mars, the Sun looks two-third of the size we see on the Earth.

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