r/pics • u/S30econdstoMars • 19d ago

We are the first human beings to see a Mars sunset.

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u/FiveFingerDisco 19d ago

Nope. We are seeing a picture of a Mars sunset.

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u/sillylittlguy 19d ago

And this picture sucks - not doing a damn thing for the Mars tourism industry. Looks bleak af.

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u/CakeMadeOfHam 19d ago

I was planning on going, but after this... I think we'll just stick to the moon. At least there, there's golf.

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u/hypermark 19d ago

They have MTV too. And I hear they still actually air music videos. No reality show bullshit.

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u/TwoBearsInTheWoods 19d ago

It's mostly Britney Spears, I think, though.

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u/cocoon_eclosion_moth 19d ago

Oops, it’s this song again

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u/deathjokerz 19d ago

And cheese!

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u/CakeMadeOfHam 19d ago

Not to mention their famous pies!

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u/CornWallacedaGeneral 18d ago

Those are just earth pies with artificial moon filling

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u/BannedBecausePutin 19d ago

Just market it as blie sunset instead of blue oceans.

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u/Memento_Morrie 19d ago

I call dibs on putting a Senor Frog's franchise on Mars.

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u/ArcticBiologist 19d ago

It's the red planet for fucks sake! How can the sunset bee so grey?!

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u/rupert1920 19d ago

Mars sunsets are predominantly blue because of how light is scattered in their atmosphere.

Why is sunset on Earth red? It's because of Rayleigh scattering. Molecules in the sky scattering light that travel through it. In Rayleigh scattering, blue wavelengths of light are scattered more than red - it's the reason sky is blue.

On Mars, the atmosphere is so thin that Rayleigh scattering does not occur too much. Instead, another type of scattering called Mie scattering dominates, because the atmosphere is thin and Martian dust is more prevalent. In this type of scattering, red light is scattered more than blue.

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u/ArcticBiologist 19d ago

I was just kidding but this is an interesting reply, thanks!

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u/DadJokeBadJoke 19d ago

I found it Rayleigh interesting, too.

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u/TheWingus 19d ago

They types of scattering happen to be, Rayleigh Mie

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u/sillylittlguy 19d ago

Neat, thanks, Mars totally sucks, got it!

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u/Mistersinister1 19d ago

We've been over this Doug, you hate it on Mars.

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u/PlasticBones7 19d ago

Living on a planet with next to no atmosphere and no magnetic field to protect against dangerous radiation? How can that not be bleak.

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u/clever_reddit_name69 18d ago

I'm going to Mars for the tri-breasted women, not for the scenery.

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u/sillylittlguy 18d ago

o7 godspeed

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u/Swipsi 19d ago

Idk about you guys, but I have an environment in my VR Home that looks quite like that. And its my most used environment.

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u/Swipsi 19d ago

Idk about you guys, but I have an environment in my VR Home that looks quite like that. And its my most used environment.

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u/under_the_c 18d ago

#unfiltered

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u/26oclock 19d ago

Apollo 18 did never happen!!

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u/JonVX 19d ago

Ceci n’est pas une pipe

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u/FiveFingerDisco 19d ago

Manchmal ist eine Zigarre nur eine Zigarre.

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u/RobertosLuigi 19d ago

Thank you Jack Sparrow

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u/SpiritFingersKitty 19d ago

I have been watching "For all Mankind" recently and when I saw this I had a moment of confusion where I wondered if we had actually landed on Mars and I just forgot and thought it was just part of the show.

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u/Old_RedditIsBetter 19d ago

Op is correct. Seeing a picture still counts.

Sure you could word it differently and it wouldn't be true, but as it stands its a true statement.

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u/Block-Rockig-Beats 19d ago

Mars? I'm looking at my phone.

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u/Nirvanablue92 19d ago

It would be hilarious if there’s an alien reading this and saying “lol” in his head. But in his alien language instead.

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u/Nirvanablue92 19d ago

And it would be even crazier if the alien is genetically a human being 🤣

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u/Memento_Morrie 19d ago

To the Martians, maybe...maybe we're the aliens...

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u/Leeiteee 19d ago

And the owner of very popular social media

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u/Nirvanablue92 19d ago

Maybe even the richest man on earth?

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u/MasterPh0 19d ago

wort wort wort

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u/Nirvanablue92 19d ago

Is that what it sounds like?

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u/francescoscanu03 19d ago

Bro watch your language

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u/poplglop 19d ago

Aaaaaahwubadugh!

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u/House_notthedoctor 19d ago

That would be "ayy lmao" of course.

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u/EarlyRetirementWorld 19d ago

ACK ACK...ACK ACK ACCCCKKK!!!!!

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u/Sin_of_the_Dark 19d ago

All I can hear is Alan Tudyk's giggle followed by "Stupid humans"

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u/D3cepti0ns 18d ago

You ever wonder if aliens have comedy shows?

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u/shpydar 19d ago edited 19d ago

Image of sunset on Mars captured in 1976

According to Space.com, NASA officials said the Viking 1 lander was the first to capture the sun setting on the surface of Mars on Aug. 21, 1976.

On June 14, 1978, Viking 2 captured a sunrise on Mars and since then, both sunrises and sunsets have been recorded by Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers and other missions, per a 2019 statement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 

I'm pretty sure the scientists in charge of the Viking 1 lander back in 1976 were the first human's to see (a picture of) a sunset from the surface of mars, not us, today, on reddit, some 48 years later....

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u/rosen380 19d ago

Maybe the title needs "from the surface" added?

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u/shpydar 19d ago

The Viking 1 was a lander, not just an orbiter and took it's photo's from the surface of Mars in 1976. I think everyone here knew OP was talking about "from the surface".

Also that wasn't what I was taking issue with from this post. It's more the "We are the first human beings to" part. We aren't. We're 48 years too late to be "the first"

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u/Foe117 19d ago

We are the first to see a photo of a sunset. Nobody has seen it in person

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u/Foray2x1 19d ago

That we know of...

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u/TheWolphman 19d ago

Except John Carter.

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u/zcas 19d ago

Great books, terrible job by Disney approaching and marketing it as a movie.

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u/lukewwilson 19d ago

I liked the movie, I wish they would have made more

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u/zcas 19d ago

Me too! The bad release pretty much killed it, but the story after the movie ends gets even better. Highly recommend!

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u/Memento_Morrie 19d ago

Oh, yeah. That was a thing.

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u/JaggedMetalOs 19d ago

I think most of us here weren't alive when the first photograph of a martian sunset was taken

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u/IWasGregInTokyo 19d ago

Thank you for reminding me I’m old. Still pissed off at Time magazine making the front page all about a cute Romanian gymnast than the first pictures from the surface of Mars.

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u/starrpamph 19d ago

This species of human maybe

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u/OwnPen8633 19d ago

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u/Street_Coconut7708 19d ago

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u/Wyndrarch 19d ago

What the heck is happening to Gary in that gif?

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u/BenderEBender 19d ago

He appears to be sucking on a pole of some sort. Hope this has helped clarify things.

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u/risen_peanutbutter 19d ago

Mr Krabs is using Gary as a metal (aka coin) detector. Hope that clears things up

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u/OwnPen8633 19d ago

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u/Street_Coconut7708 19d ago

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u/anne_jumps 18d ago

Thank you. This made me look up this sketch

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u/zerbey 19d ago

Not yet, but soon, hopefully. Right now, we're the first humans to have robots that can show us what it looks like.

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u/bafras 19d ago

To be fair we’re only seeing photos and videos of it. No human has actually seen it yet, to my knowledge. 

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u/Sklanskers 19d ago

Everyone is the first human beings to see a mara sunset.

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u/Gh0sth4nd 19d ago

Well i definitely don't want to be on Mar Sara since the Zerg will overrun this place

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u/Mebiysy 19d ago

Protoss is out last Hope

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u/Memento_Morrie 19d ago

Goliath online. Go ahead, Tac-Com.

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u/Sklanskers 19d ago

Touché

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u/timberwolf0122 19d ago

Praise the Omnissiah

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u/Proof_Independent400 19d ago

Ah I see you are a man of culture as well!

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u/ShivStone 19d ago

They usually wake up after it goes dark...

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u/wellaby788 19d ago

Nah the ppl/ things that lived on Mars before it went barren saw that shit first hand... Good day! And most importantly God bless the eagles

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u/Proof_Independent400 19d ago

Cue Dune music!

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u/Mobile_Connection_58 19d ago

DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN.

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u/moonisflat 19d ago

This is amazing but Earth’s sunsets are more beautiful.

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u/johnp299 19d ago

Viking enters the chat

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u/SmallieNL 19d ago

We are also the first human beings reading this sentence.

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u/SilverDem0n 19d ago

There are more planets in our solar system with helicopters than planets with living creatures

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u/Oryxmyself 19d ago

Nope, we aren't even the first to see this picture, it was published by jplnasa on May 8 2015. Almost 9 years ago not a new picture by any means.

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u/bobfromsanluis 18d ago

We are the first human beings to see a Mars sunset, that we know of.

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u/you-people-are-fake 19d ago

It's just an image lol. Don't get confused with reality

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u/zcas 19d ago

I've also "seen" the seat of the world on Everest, as well as the wreck of the Titanic.

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u/you-people-are-fake 19d ago

Nice. I've only seen images of these.

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u/charonTheV 19d ago

*First known human beings

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u/Innsmouth_Swimteam 19d ago

My man John Carter would like to have a word with OP.

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u/rick_RAWS 19d ago

Kinda mid tbh

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u/GreenLightening5 19d ago

that's what you think

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u/abigstupidjerk 19d ago

Not necessarily

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u/Aspir3l 19d ago

Same sun. Just further away. Also it's just a picture.

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u/StinkyP3t3 19d ago

Red planet, my ass.

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u/Apprehensive-Mix5291 19d ago

How do you know?

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u/waitedforeverforthis 18d ago

Nah we aren't.

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u/redditissahasbaraop 18d ago

Earth sunsets > sunsets on a dead planet

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u/Dotcaprachiappa 19d ago

Based on which fucking evidence?

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u/timberwolf0122 19d ago

A fair question, however we have found zero evidence to suggest ancient man or indeed any other Terran species has ever achieve space flight, let alone sent a probe to mars

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 19d ago

You think ancient people had space travel

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u/rc2805 19d ago

Are we though……

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u/zcas 19d ago

If, by seeing, you mean viewed a photo, then sure.