Comments on: Sunset on Mars

By: djam

djam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

it took 3 years for NASA to release this picture, would they tell us if they found alians on Mars?

By: Shawn Wolfe

Shawn Wolfe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ahhh, sunset over Cydonia….

By: laffmakr

laffmakr — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Damn, I love this photo. More than the Earth-Moon HD photo. And it has been posted before.

And DJAM, just for the record, WE are the aliens on Mars.

By: buddy66

buddy66 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“The rest is silence….”

By: Banksynergy

Banksynergy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great picture. The sun being smaller makes the sky seem bigger…

…which is nice.

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Djam – don’t know if you’re kidding or not, but this photo was released in 2005. They just posted it on their “picture of the day” site – http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

By: Peaceflag2007

Peaceflag2007 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Now all we need are lovers holding hands beneath it…

How long until THAT happens?

By: haaz

haaz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is a truly awe-inspiring photo. How many times have we dreamed of scenes such as this since we first saw “Star Wars”? All those “artist’s conceptions” of what sunset on a distant world might look like — and now, this.

Thank you, to all the scientists and people who made this possible. Thank you.

By: Argon

Argon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

[tinfoil hat] How do we know it isn’t a sunrise? [/tinfoil hat]

By: ErikO23

ErikO23 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

will somebody please invent a new and vastly more effective form of propulsion and energy production so we can hurry up and terraform Mars.

also.. i think its safe to say that we are not going to endanger any important martian life forms, so lets hurry up and start sending “seeds” of life over there to get the ball rolling.

there has got to be some kind of life form on this planet that could survive there.

By: PopeRatzo

PopeRatzo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What a moving image. Thanks for sharing that. That humans are still capable of reaching to the stars makes me hopeful, even during this miserable time of war, greed and despoilment.

By: mrfitz

mrfitz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

300 billion and all I got was this sunset photo

By: Strange Quark Star

Strange Quark Star — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is my favorite picture from space.

That’s why I’ve been using it as a desktop background on all my computers for over a year now!
Try it, it really looks perfect (and the resolution is more than adequate, too).

By: License Farm

License Farm — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I love the cognitive dissonance that the smaller sun evokes, not to mention the near lack of any of the atmospheric phenomena a sunset on Earth tends to have. I hope that if even I do not get a chance to ever see this sight with my own eyes in my lifetime, someone else might in that span. I plan to be watching man walk on Mars from my Barcalounger on the Moon.

By: meehawl

meehawl — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bigger version of sunset for larger screens here:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050610a.html

By: holtt

holtt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

also.. i think its safe to say that we are not going to endanger any important [] life forms, so lets hurry up and start sending "seeds" of life over there to get the ball rolling.

I bet that's what Queen Isabella said too... There is some serious curiosity and awe this stuff stirs up. Take a look on Twitterholic and you'll see that the new lander is now number 13! That's pretty amazing.

By: Guesstimate Jones

Guesstimate Jones — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nah…that’s Ely, Nevada…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

is rare say this, but, there is not another photo more beautifull than this…in the earth

By: noen

noen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Beautiful, just beautiful.

By: Wickedashtray

Wickedashtray — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Now all we need are lovers holding hands beneath it…

while their eyes pop like four soft grapes being crushed by a giants hand due to the vacuum……

I’m reading Greg Bears “Moving Mars” ATM. great book but ya gotta love how optimistic some of these writers are when it comes to their timelines of humans populating the solar system. According to the book we had a full blown underground city on the Red Planet by 2048.

not likely…..at all.

By: Marcela

Marcela — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Mizzy for showing me the craziest sunset eva!!!

It’s Radical….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So that’s what an unpolluted sunset looks like.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

sunset:earth
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080320.html
p3nd

By: Hagrid

Hagrid — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tunisia. 1975. Star Wars was filming Tatooine scenes. I was there.

I saw this image today and had a sense of deja vu. It totally evokes the image of Luke Skywalker with the two suns.

By: NicoleRichieVicodinRave

NicoleRichieVicodinRave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That’s just another Burning Man .jpeg.

By: mars

mars — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

on Mars, the sunset is blue

By: Pete Carlton

Pete Carlton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What I often think about Mars, if you were there walking around on it, is how dark it would be. You’re about twice as far from the sun, so the light per area is only a quarter as bright as on the Earth. High noon on Mars is sunset on Earth. And that’s an awesome picture.

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

who is NASA’s poet laureate?

By: misssockmonkey

misssockmonkey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s strange to see the sun setting on another planet, that is a real photograph, not some movie image. It’s striking and beautiful.