00:00Have you ever wondered what the night sky looks like on Mars?
00:03You might have seen digitally altered images like this one on social media.
00:07While it's certainly magical, it's not what NASA's rovers have been capturing on the red planet.
00:12These are two separate images that have been combined.
00:16In the foreground of this altered image, you see Curiosity.
00:19In the background, a stunning star field.
00:22Now here's the original image from Curiosity.
00:24You can see it was daytime when the rover snapped that selfie.
00:28And here's the original star field, which comes from a space observatory on Earth.
00:32If you had a space observatory on Mars, you could get an image like that.
00:36But Curiosity's cameras do something different.
00:39They're optimized to showcase Mars' unique landscapes and intriguing features.
00:44If you were lying on Mars on a clear night, the sky would likely remind you of our sky on Earth,
00:49especially in the darkest places like remote deserts or mountaintops.
00:53But until we ourselves can go camping on Mars,
00:55we'll continue to view the planet and its sky through the eyes of our robotic rovers,
01:00knowing that each image they send back reveals a little bit more about the red planet.
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