KOMPAS.com – The planet Earth we live on has a blue sky and can change color to orange when the sun rises and sets. However, is the sky on Mars blue?
The Martian sky is reddish during the day
Unlike Earth, Mars has a much thinner atmosphere than Earth. It is estimated that the atmosphere of the planet Mars is about 100 times thinner than the Earth’s atmosphere.
Reporting from Smore Science Magazine, with little atmosphere that can be passed through, not much sunlight is scattered.
This makes the Martian sky look dark, unlike Earth’s bright sky.
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Meanwhile, Mars has many red iron oxide dust particles in its atmosphere.
This causes more red wavelengths to be scattered. So, the sky on Mars looks reddish or yellowish brown.
The Martian sky is blue at sunrise and sunset
In contrast to the earth which has blue skies during the day and reddish orange at sunrise and sunset.
Mars has a reddish sky during the day and blue at sunrise and sunset.
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When the sun rises and sets, sunlight passes through the Martian atmosphere from a lower angle.
Meanwhile, the atmosphere on Mars has fine dust. Reporting from NASA Science, the fine dust is the right size so that blue light penetrates the atmosphere a little more efficiently.
Blue light is scattered mainly in the part of the sky close to the sun. So, the sunrise and sunset on Mars have a blue color.
Reporting from NASA Mars Exploration, ice clouds can also form in the Martian atmosphere at night. This forms a bright blue line in the dark Martian sky.
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2023-12-24 11:00:00
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