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Courtesy of NASA/JPLInSight Captures Stunning Martian Sunrise |
Sol 145, or on the Earth calendar, April 24th, the
NASA InSight Lander caught this striking image of a Martian sunrise! Taken around
5:30am local Martian time, this image is available as both “raw” and
color-corrected. While you can see more detain in the raw version, the
color-corrected more accurately shows how the human eye would see this stunning
view.
Because Mars is farther away than the Earth is, the Sun only
appears about two-thirds the size in the Martian sky compared to how we see it
from home.
But this is not the first time InSight has captured this
event. Its camera took practice shots of sunrise and sunset on March 2nd
and 10th. And InSight is not the first lander to take such photos,
either.
“It’s been a tradition for Mars missions to capture sunrises
and sunsets,” says Justin Maki, InSight Science Team Co-Investigator and Imaging
Lead at JPL. “With many of our primary imaging tasks complete, we decided to
capture the sunrise and sunset as seen from another world.”
Given the number of European partners involved in support and
instrumentation for the InSight Lander, we can expect to see much more exciting
science to come!
If
you want to learn more about the InSight mission and those involved, you can do
so by visiting their website.
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