Fuckin reddit, always joking and shit. This picture could be completely fake or edited.
Its probably AI until NASA posts this picture themselves. But seeing as how Trump appointed a fuckin billionare private astronaut to run NASA, I wouldnt put it past them to post fake shit too.
How insane would it be if THATS how we discovered aliens? NASA released a photo of one on another planet without noticing and some dude on Reddit points it out 😂
phun pfakt: Marvin the Martian's character design is influenced by the armour that the Roman god of war, Mars, would usually be depicted as have been wearing.
As some other people have commented on this thread, there is no source for this image, so many are assuming it's AI right now. That would explain this artifact that doesn't actually make sense.
I thought you might be wrong, since we have plenty of real shots of sunsets on mars, and this just looks like one that has been touched up a bit (gamma through the roof) to make it pop, but I cannot find this anywhere other than Facebook posts over the last week.
When you take the nasa picture and increase saturation you'll get a comparable effect. So I think it's just over-developed.
The question is what you want; a realistic picture or a nice artsy wallpaper-ish one...
The dust in the atmosphere acts like a filter and only certain wavelengths of light pass through or it scatters the light in a certain way from what I remember reading years ago. I think blue suns have been observed on Earth after dust storms or volcanic eruptions do the same thing.
All "natural color" photos from space probes, telescopes, rovers are edited. They have full-spectrum cameras, and these images are taken through multiple color filters (usually three, sometimes two) and than digitally interpreted to approximately match what our eyes could see.
Well ackchyually™ all digital photos are edited, either in post or in camera, by the camera itself.
The photos published by NASA are (most, many, for sure not all) "compositions" that are done by designers & artists at NASA. There is a long article somewhere at NASA that describes the process of "designing" those images.
This is not a correct image, and I can't map it to one in the NASA archives. It appears to be either a composite, a fake, or AI.
A sunset on Mars does have a slight blue tinge, if the atmosphere is dusty, as Mie scattering (from dust particles) becomes relevant more than Rayleigh scattering (from far smaller gas particles).
It would be an extremely vivid sunset on Mars for the eye to be able to see a blue hue. The conditions which favour a bluer sunset also favour lower atmospheric pressure (lower pressure = less Rayleigh scattering) and the longest seeing distance, so the top of Olympus Mons in Martian dust storm.
Mie scattering scatters red most efficiently, which is why the Martian atmosphere has that pink-salmon tone, with that scattered more, the direct lighting tends toward blue. On the top of Olympus Mons during a dust storm, however, the atmosphere would look black to the eye.
Because of the desert like landscape, it’s easy to forget how far from the sun and how cold Mars is, about twice as cold as the coldest place on earth, without specialized equipment a human would survive mere minutes at those temperatures.
absolutely loving it. we take things like blue sky and red sunsets for granted. but change the distance, stir the atmospheric compounds a bit, and here u have it - red sky with a blue sunset! :o
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u/Parking-Display-5412 3h ago
The hell is that