• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    fun fact: the atmosphere on mars is so thin that it only gets thick enough to do rayleigh scattering at “long angles” such as the sun being close to the horizon.

    in other words, the sunset on mars IS BLUE.

    • NotSpez@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      That’s awesome, thanks!

      Also, with a density of atmosphere of circa 1% of the Earth’s, you would need a massive spoiler and/or a lot of weight to actually get some traction.