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Martian Sunset

A Martian sunset, as captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover on April 15, 2015.
A Martian sunset, as captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover on April 15, 2015. Image: Royal Observatory Greenwich/John White (UK)/NASA-JPL/Caltech

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured this sunset on Mars, but photographer John White from the UK managed to find this sequence among the nearly 390,000 images tucked away in the Mars Curiosity raw archive. He then filtered the images to produce the lovely set you see here.