TORONTO – We may enjoy some stunning sunsets on Earth, but have you ever wondered what it might look like on Mars?
NASA has released another sequence of images of a sunset on Mars, giving future explorers a better idea of what they may expect if they plan to settle on the distant red planet.
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A similar series of images — of a blue sunset in 2012 — was released in February. This new series of images was taken on April 15, 2015.
To some it may be surprising to see that the sunset on the red planet isn’t red at all, but rather blue. But it’s due to that pervasive red dust on Mars that makes the daytime sky red and its sunset blue. On Earth, it’s exactly the opposite: blue light is scattered (think, blue sky) and red remains.
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