The night sky in Mars isn't going to look significantly different from a dark sky on Earth. Get out to a dark sky and that'll give you everything you'd get out of the Martian sky, except you'll pitentially be able to see Mars up above rather than the Earth.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It would actually be a little different as the atmosphere isn't there to absorb some wavelength, but the sentiment is there

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

Mars' atmosphere has the same transparency window to visible light as Earth's. The major difference between there and here is the amount of dust suspended in the air, which is highly variable and dependent on latitude and season. On average, it actually blocks more visible light than the dust and water in Earth's atmosphere, but the effect is also independent of wavelength, at least in the visible spectrum.

So the sky might actually be a little dimmer than you'd see in dry, dark conditions on Earth.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 12 hours ago

just go to nasas site or its youtube channel. Everything you see from a news article from nasa they make public themselves. they don't give places special sneak peaks or anything.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I think NASA is a trustworthy source for space photography

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Just because digitaltrends on whatever social media platform says in their post that the image is from NASA doesn't mean it actually is.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Fair point. After digging around I'm not finding that image on the NASA website, so it could very well be fake

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's a chunk of this: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1242a/

It's not NASA and not the night sky on Mars, let alone what you'd see. It's not enough to say "don't believe what you see in Instagram reels", you should actively disbelieve what you see, especially since Facebook doesn't give a shit about misinformation. They'd rather have engagement metrics.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 15 hours ago

I viscerally hate how gullible I am.

My wife's always, "That's probably not true," and I'm believing EVERYTHING.

Grrrr.

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works -5 points 15 hours ago

No we aren’t. Fuck you.

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