Published 11:43 IST, June 24th 2020
NASA scientists show how sunsets would look from other planets | Watch
A scientist working for NASA has created a simulation of how sunsets would look from other planets. It transports viewers on to surface of Mars, Uranus etc.
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A scientist working for NASA has created a simulation of how sunsets would look from or planets. animation transports viewers on to surface of mars, venus, Uranus, Saturn's largest moon Titan and an exoplanet Trappist-1e. animation, which is w doing rounds of internet, let users view "wide-angle" sunsets along with Halos of sun.
While it shows sunset sky on Uranus to be azure that fes into royal blue with hints of turquoise, Martian sky is a bronze. It also shows sunset at Titan (moon of Saturn) and Trappist-1e, a planet in a nearby star system. According to NASA, blue-green colour comes from interaction of sunlight with atmosphere. same phemen due to which earth’s sky looks blue.
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"se sky simulations are w a new feature of a widely used online tool called Planetary Spectrum Generator, which was developed by Villanueva and his colleagues at NASA Goddard. generator helps scientists replicate how light is transferred through atmospheres of planets, exoplanets, moons, and comets in order to understand what ir atmospheres and surfaces are me of, NASA wrote in its blog.
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Developed by Geronimo Villanueva
animation was developed by Geronimo Villanueva, a planetary scientist from NASA’s Goddard Flight Center in Maryland while he was building a tool for a future mission to Uranus. Elaborating logic behind creation NASA on its blog wrote that as se worlds rotate away from light of Sun, which is what happens during a sunset, "photons get scattered in different directions depending on energy of photons and s of molecules in atmospheres". result is a lovely palette of colours that would be visible to those standing on se worlds.
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Im credits: NASA
11:43 IST, June 24th 2020