Nice Martian sunset

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #1 28-09-2006, 11:05 PM

Thought this was pretty cool. It's off Wiki.

Photograph of Martian sunset taken May 19th, 2005 by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover: Spirit at Gusev crater.

From JPL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MarsSunset.jpg

iceman (Mike) · #2 29-09-2006, 05:46 AM

That is a very nice image.. they need an atmosphere though, don't you reckon? It would give it some more colour

mattweather · #3 01-10-2006, 05:25 PM

Before i look in this topic, i thought it going to be run similar to ours. Now it it look like our halo sunset. How come it different?

Blue Fire · #4 03-10-2006, 09:02 AM

Hmmm... terraforming would take care of that little atmosphere problem, eh?

Oh, that I could live long enough to see it!

[1ponders] (Paul) · #5 03-10-2006, 09:11 AM

That is really "unearthly"

I'm sitting here looking at it trying to relate it to anything I've seen on this planet. The only thing I can think of is the sun rising through a distant fog but the fog is only near the horizon, yet rises a long way into the sky.

Awesome shot.

mattweather · #6 03-10-2006, 07:13 PM

Well looks scary to me haha!