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A Stunning Sunset on Mars [PIC]

nasa.gov — As part of their Image of the Day series, NASA posted a beautiful image of a sunset on Mars sent by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on May 19, 2005

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  • Odenized, on 06/03/2008, -2/+75Nothing like those on Earth...but this is a whole new ball game - beautiful in its own right.
  • gavinhudson, on 06/04/2008, -9/+159I'm all for space exploration, but I have to say that it doesn't look nearly as beautiful (or hospitable) as our home planet. Let's keep our home nice, eh?
    • chandan333, on 06/04/2008, -1/+24yes, Nothing can beat Earth when it comes to beauty in this whole universe(YET).
    • gmprunner, on 06/04/2008, -9/+13I'm speculating that part of the reason why that sunset doesn't look as beautiful is our is because Mars doesn't have so much dirty air to light up and change colors in.
      • jhai, on 06/05/2008, -1/+5I don't know why you've been dug down, because you're partially correct.

        Dugg up.
    • lebruf, on 06/04/2008, -1/+5The sun looks tiny on that horizon due to the distance... I'm guessing that the sunsets look pretty much cooler on Venus and Mercury, and way worse on the non-planet Pluto
      • cronot, on 06/05/2008, -1/+2No, I think that's just an artifact of photography, or rather an optical illusion we get when we look at the sun with our own eyes. If you take a picture of the sun (or the moon) from earth, the sun will seem relatively smaller in the picture than when you see it with your own eyes. Same here. I guess that if you saw the sun with your own eyes from the surface of mars, it would seem to you that the sun is only slightly smaller than from earth (or not really - since there's so much dust on mars' atmosphere, there would be more scattered light, so the sun probably would look either the same size as on earth or may be even slightly bigger).
    • EBFoxbat, on 06/04/2008, -1/+4It never occurred to me that it would be so small. It's kinda of lonely. I don't think I want to go there any more.
    • DigitusAnonymus, on 06/05/2008, -6/+1I come from a planet where people ***** chocolate-flavored rainbows.
    • moomincharlie, on 06/05/2008, -2/+2it makes me feel a little bit sad, that even though i know space exploratory is important, i wish more more time and effort were spent looking after *our planet* rather than exploring others?
      • yuanzhoulu, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1sooner or later our planet will be engulfed. yeah, it's in a couple thousand million years or more but we need to begin understanding space technology to know how to get elsewhere when the time comes.

        sure, it's not the priority, but doesn't mean it shouldn't also be done on the side. only then will we, in a billion years, actually have a civilisation set up elsewhere in another solar system.

        first step at a time -- understand another planet.
      • Metasquares, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2ALWAYS HAVE BACKUPS.
    • twrife, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2Sunsets look better here because of the pollution particles in the atmosphere, or so I've always been told.
    • directive0, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1Sunsets on Earth look beautiful to us because we are adapted to life in it's unique environment. I'm sure a sentient Martian (if they do/did exist) would see this or something similar as beautiful, and our Terran sunsets would be "too blue" or "not hazy" enough or something.
    • xonkonog, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2Its beauty is in its simplicity.
  • SirPopper, on 06/04/2008, -9/+2Yeah I felt it, as I have looked at the picture and I have thought huh I am on Mars how is the sunset.

    It is a lil dark there, we need a lot lighter!

  • Tunguska, on 06/04/2008, -9/+1There she is! Set sunsets for stun!
  • marksmayo, on 06/04/2008, -21/+11What's amazing is msaleem resorting to posting 2 year old images on digg ;)
  • helloluke, on 06/04/2008, -15/+0the Phoenix twitter said that mars is further away from the earth than the sun... that is some LONG distance sunset
  • prophet513, on 06/04/2008, -8/+66If we had two suns it would look like Tatooine
    • floridiot2, on 06/04/2008, -1/+8So that's where they filmed Star Wars.
    • ausoff2, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2aww thats what i was gonna say :(
  • JusticeFriend, on 06/04/2008, -30/+1All the world knows the moon landing was a big fake, and now this?
    Let me say a word about it:

    FAKE.
  • PhilThePhenom, on 06/04/2008, -4/+95Makes me want to become a jedi.
    • neems25, on 06/04/2008, -1/+1Que infamous Star Wars music from "A New Hope"
    • benburned, on 06/04/2008, -0/+2but wouldn't there be two suns in that case?
    • JoeRW, on 06/04/2008, -0/+2Well be careful. The dark side is one hell of a seductress what with its complementary bo staff skills.
  • Ricaud, on 06/04/2008, -3/+66The sun looks amazingly little
    • Rewebbed, on 06/04/2008, -2/+14That is because Mars is 36 million miles further away from the sun than earth. and that is on a good day.
    • jake86, on 06/04/2008, -2/+3But Mars has a lot more radiation.
      You'll still get that golden complexion.
      • MuskokasFinest, on 06/05/2008, -1/+1And then some...
      • ophello, on 06/05/2008, -2/+2radiation? are you serious?
      • Rewebbed, on 06/05/2008, -2/+0However radiation does not turn cook you from the outside, but from the inside.
    • Sabretou, on 06/05/2008, -0/+3Yeah, well take a trip to Mercury. It's all sun all day all the time.
    • Rewebbed, on 06/05/2008, -1/+1That is not entirely true. Unlike Earth, Mercury does not rotate on its x-axis. nor its y for that matter. One side never sees the sun. Make sure your tickets say you are going to the sun side, or if you're american, ask for a refund.
    • heavystone, on 06/05/2008, -2/+1Yes...distance does that to things....
  • JClarksondd, on 06/04/2008, -6/+14The sun looks so small
  • Terasiel, on 06/04/2008, -16/+6The questions is, what part of Arizona or Nevada is that filmed in?
  • disingenious, on 06/04/2008, -2/+35It'll look prettier once we import some good ol' pollution. >;)
    • kataztrophy, on 06/05/2008, -0/+4I'm already saving up for a summer home on Mars.
  • gllopc, on 06/04/2008, -2/+68Uncle Owen? Aunt Baru?!
  • cyclades, on 06/04/2008, -0/+27But I was supposed to go to Toshi station and pick up some power converters!
  • Ruger11mcrdpi, on 06/04/2008, -11/+4In Soviet Russia, Mars rises on sun.
  • trezegol, on 06/04/2008, -12/+6This pic makes its way on digg every few months... however the pic itself never fails to impress me... sunset on another freakin planet dude!
    • lebruf, on 06/04/2008, -4/+4every few months, ever since 5/19/08?
      • ocellnuri, on 06/04/2008, -0/+12"On May 19, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view..."

  • Starshope, on 06/04/2008, -0/+46One day I hope to look at that first hand.
    • antonio97b, on 06/04/2008, -3/+1You'll be dead before then. Maybe space in general..
      • villavicencio, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1Dream killer...
        • antonio97b, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2Oh what? You would be diassapointed in space or the moon?

          You just haaaave to go to mars. What has mars ever done for you?
  • PlanR, on 06/04/2008, -2/+8Stunning...you keep using that word.
    I do not think it means what you think it means.
    • stewartgorman, on 06/04/2008, -0/+3dugg for the Princess Bride reference
    • Greengoo, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2Mawwage... Mawwage is what bwings us togeva today. That bwessed awangement, that dweam within a dweam...
  • ClemyNX, on 06/04/2008, -2/+13Thats such an old picture, I saw it a long time ago on the spirit's homepage...
    Anyway, it's truly a beautiful sunset, it's the first image that really makes me feel what it would be like on mars.
  • GregFD3S, on 06/04/2008, -2/+16Now theres something you don't see every day.
  • iapi, on 06/04/2008, -4/+3cool image
  • firkey, on 06/04/2008, -3/+7I woke up today completely amazed by a thought that Earth is a ball in space and that we live on it. Seeing that there is another ball out there that has scenes that we can comprehend and relate to is even more amazing.
  • paperclipsNsoup, on 06/04/2008, -13/+6Buried, this has been on the front page like 3 times already
    http://digg.com/search?s=sunset+mars&submit=Search ...
    • idesign562, on 06/04/2008, -0/+5Agree. It's been my wallpaper for months now and i got to it because it was on the front page of digg.

      The "make sure it's not a dupe" thing is very similar to a Speed Limit sign.
    • FloydPinkus, on 06/04/2008, -3/+0I shall congratulate you on your marvelous searching skills........
      • InferiorWang, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1It doesn't take much searching when you remember seeing it several times before. It used to be my wallpaper, too. I remember the when it first came out several years ago. It's still a cool pic.
  • mahDigga, on 06/04/2008, -0/+53higher definition for wallpapers

    http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spiri ...
    • DigitusAnonymus, on 06/05/2008, -5/+2Hey dude nice wallpapers, um you got any of those HD wallpapers of Jessica Alba? It's not for me it's for a project I'm working on. Architecture class.
    • DarkDx, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2Mars rover: the 400 billion wallpaper space mission.
    • ElbertF, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1This has been my wallpaper since the last time it was on Digg.
  • theghoul, on 06/04/2008, -0/+15That is awesome. Stare at it for a minute then say to yourself its on another friggen planet.

    Surreal.
  • krolm, on 06/04/2008, -0/+3beautiful!
  • chrgrose, on 06/04/2008, -8/+2SUPER OLD, and even more awesome.
  • umbrellainabin, on 06/04/2008, -6/+2Is mars' moons made of cheese too?
    • willrs, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1Phobos actually looks like lump of goat cheese imo
  • idesign562, on 06/04/2008, -5/+2OMG! it looks like... it was front-paged already. a while ago.
  • antonio97b, on 06/04/2008, -4/+4The atmosphere looks worse than LA on a good day.
    • beastlykings, on 06/04/2008, -1/+1For to be funny, you should have said, "The atmosphere looks better than LA on a good day."
      Of course it looks worse, thats why its funny!
    • ophello, on 06/05/2008, -1/+1FAIL
  • topace3000, on 06/04/2008, -2/+3It's so tiny...
  • wigginz, on 06/04/2008, -0/+2Excellent pic, one of my favorites. Was my #1 favorite until I saw the pic the MRO took of the Phoenix sitting on the surface with it's solar panels deployed. For some reason that is just an amazing picture, can we even do that with that resolution on Earth? The MarsPhoenix Twitter feed uses it as the background. NASA really did something special with the coordination of the MRO and Phoenix on descent and after it landed.
  • MillionsLivio, on 06/04/2008, -1/+3The nihilistic aura in this image is beautiful, I love the blue hue.
    • Xephyr, on 06/04/2008, -2/+2No, you don't sound like you know what you're talking about. You sound like a total idiot.
      • MillionsLivio, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1I'm simply stating how I the picture made me feel. The image has a nihilistic aura, it has a feeling of emptiness. I'm sorry that I didn't say "it's creepy" or some other pathetically redundant comment; I'm rather sure I know how to define my own feelings.
  • MisterChirish, on 06/04/2008, -1/+6There's such a sentiment of isolation in that picture... but beautiful in its loneliness...
  • GorfTron, on 06/04/2008, -1/+1Wow, the first pic of mars that actually looks good and interesting.
  • Synova, on 06/04/2008, -1/+22FAKE! The sun is way too small. Oh, wait...
    • spatty, on 06/04/2008, -0/+10it is fake, there are no little green men.
    • fhornplayer, on 06/05/2008, -0/+6The refractions are all wrong.
  • Fixthemedia, on 06/04/2008, -0/+2Looks like some Ive seen during dust storms (live in arizona)
    • BlueTunicLink, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1That's what I thought when they sent back the first images - "Are you sure they didn't land in Arizona?"
  • marcushe, on 06/04/2008, -0/+3I would recommend getting this printed as a poster for your fathers day present...My pops loved it last year!
  • DocOrpheus, on 06/04/2008, -1/+7*Cue John Williams SW Score*
  • Joomal, on 06/04/2008, -2/+33 YEARS old taken from the Rovers, but just amazing. Thanks for sharing!
  • internetcoward, on 06/04/2008, -0/+3isn't this from Owen Lars' Flickr account?
  • 888gavin, on 06/04/2008, -8/+2This picture is old as *****!
    • cgruber, on 06/04/2008, -1/+5Your mom's ***** are so old that when she breast feeds she gives powdered milk.
    • ophello, on 06/05/2008, -1/+2wow, i wasnt sure why i had you blocked originally, but i was curious so i looked at your comment.

      Yup. now I remember why i blocked you.
    • TheInimitable, on 06/05/2008, -0/+3Three year old titties?

      Why don't you take a seat over there.
  • judicar, on 06/04/2008, -1/+2It's too bad when you block someone you only block their comments and not their posts, I'm pretty sure msaleem is well aware this pic has been on the front page about half a dozen times.
  • MrPingu, on 06/04/2008, -0/+2Wow, it feels like you actually there.
  • robruiz, on 06/04/2008, -6/+1honest opinion -- not stunning -- at all.

    but the fact that this picture was taken from mars and that sun is the same sun we see here on earth only a bit smaller -- that is more amazing.
    • stroszek, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1Which is what makes the picture stunning?
  • JohnDavis730, on 06/04/2008, -1/+4it still amazes me that we are even there
  • Cycline3, on 06/04/2008, -1/+4As a photographer, a rocket flyer and a geek - this just gives me a chub.
  • Ingestre, on 06/04/2008, -0/+3I can see my house from there!!
  • SLockhart, on 06/05/2008, -4/+3Is that what passes for beautiful these days. I'd say it's interesting.
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