On May 19, 2005, NASA's Rover Spirit captured a picture of this sunset. On Mars. At first glance, many would struggle to identify this location. The sun is a little smaller, and martian dust particles give the air a bluish tint, but there isn't anything mindblowingly different from Earth.
This picture was widely distributed among the scientific community, but it also had an impact on the common citizen. It's amazing that we now have the technology to view the sun from another perspective, another planet. The sunset on Mars proves not to be so different than a sunset here on Earth, and this same Rover also found evidence of lakes. Is eventual life on Mars possible?
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