Daylight on Mars

[purplecat]

I have no idea why I am so completely mind-blown by the idea that there is daylight on Mars because, well, duh! - maybe it is growing up with all those pictures of the moon-landing against a dark sky. But I am completely mindblown by the idea that there is daylight on Mars.



Image from NASA, obviously.

Comments

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this one? It's a 360 panoramic one you can navigate around by clicking & dragging the cursor, and you can see the sun in the sky. Fascinating :)

The landscape looks relatively featureless compared to Earth though.

http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2#148.79,35.38,110.0

[purplecat]

That's splendid. I'd not seen it before thanks! I imagine the lack of vegetation contributes a lot to its apparent featurelessness.

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

I think you have a point there. That and our weather systems/water. When you think about it, a lot of our landscape is carved out by river valleys, and going further back, glaciers.