NASA has released a photo showing Mars’s morning sunrise, dawn, and evening dusk. The photo was taken by the Curiosity rover, which is currently exploring Mars.
The big valley you see in this picture is the one named Marker Band Valley. This valley is a valley formed in the Gale Crater crater, which has been studied by the Curiosity Rover since 2012.
This photo was taken by the Curiosity Rover looking back in the direction it traveled. In the picture, you can see the Marker Band Valley in the distance.
Scholars believe that this area was once a large lake. This old lake was unexpectedly discovered by the rover.
In this picture, the orange sky on the left side is the evening dusk and twilight, and the blue sky on the left side is the morning sunrise and dawn sky.
This photo was originally not a color photo but a black-and-white photo. This photo is a combination of two black-and-white photos taken at sunrise and sunset in the evening with added color.
The morning sunrise photo was taken at 9:20 a.m. on April 8, and the evening photo was taken at 3:40 p.m. These times are the local time on Mars.
It takes a total of 7.5 minutes to get each original photo. The original panoramic photo was created by combining five normal-sized photos.
When these photos were taken, it was winter on Mars.
You will notice that there are no unusual shadows in this photo. The reason for this is that in the morning picture, the sunlight falls from the right side, and in the evening picture, the light falls from the left side, so when the two pictures are overlapped, the shadows disappear.
