{"id":220945,"date":"2025-05-21T04:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=96012cf903e42ac58d684b0616b1a065"},"modified":"2025-05-21T04:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T18:25:40","slug":"sunset-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=220945","title":{"rendered":"Sunset on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia07997.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia07997.jpg?w=1280\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"The Sun, a small white dot, sets in this photo from Mars. The sky is dusty and slightly red.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia07997.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia07997.jpg?resize=300,231 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia07997.jpg?resize=768,591 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia07997.jpg?resize=1024,788 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia07997.jpg?resize=400,308 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia07997.jpg?resize=600,462 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia07997.jpg?resize=900,693 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia07997.jpg?resize=1200,923 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Texas A&amp;M\/Cornell<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/mer-spirit\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mars Exploration Rover Spirit<\/a> captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars 20 years ago. In this image, the bluish glow in the sky above the Sun would be visible to us if we were there, but an artifact of the panoramic camera\u2019s infrared imaging capabilities is that with this filter combination, the redness of the sky farther from the sunset is exaggerated compared to the daytime colors of the Martian sky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/resource\/sunset-at-mars-gusev-crater-spirit\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about this photo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Texas A&amp;M\/Cornell<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars 20 years ago. In this image, the bluish glow in the sky above the Sun would be visible to us if we were there, but an artifact of the panoramic camera\u2019s infrared imaging capabilities [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7727,16041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mars","category-spirit-rover"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221195,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220945\/revisions\/221195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}