{"id":109250,"date":"2020-06-28T14:46:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T21:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/gorgeous-nasa-simulations-show-what-sunsets-would-look-like-on-other-worlds"},"modified":"2020-06-28T14:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T21:46:46","slug":"gorgeous-nasa-simulations-show-what-sunsets-would-look-like-on-other-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/gorgeous-nasa-simulations-show-what-sunsets-would-look-like-on-other-worlds","title":{"rendered":"Gorgeous NASA Simulations Show What Sunsets Would Look Like on Other Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5DwLODp1cIY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How would the Sun look as it dipped below the horizon on a long (17 hour) day on Uranus? Or what would a late-night sunset on Mars look like, when we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/these-9-places-on-mars-could-be-the-target-for-spacex-s-first-starship-missions\">finally get there<\/a>? Thanks to some NASA computer modelling, these scenarios are now a little easier to imagine.<\/p>\n<p>What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-makes-the-colours-in-those-beautiful-sunrises-and-sunsets\">makes a sunset<\/a> is the interplay of light from the Sun \u2013 which includes all the colours of the rainbow \u2013 together with the gases and dust in the atmosphere. The less atmosphere, the less impressive the sunset.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary scientist Geronimo Villanueva, from NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, has created simulations of how sunsets might look on Venus, Mars, Uranus, the Saturn moon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/titan\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Titan\">Titan<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TRAPPIST-1e\">Trappist-1e<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would the Sun look as it dipped below the horizon on a long (17 hour) day on Uranus? Or what would a late-night sunset on Mars look like, when we finally get there? Thanks to some NASA computer modelling, these scenarios are now a little easier to imagine. What makes a sunset is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}