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Love to see the night sky on Mars? This is what it would be like to stargaze
What would it be like to see the Sun or the stars from Mars? Read our guide to find out what astronauts could see in the Mars night sky.
Photos taken by the Curiosity rover suggest that once the Sun had set there’s a good chance you would see streaks and curls of silvery-blue noctilucent clouds shining in the twilight, perhaps even a display putting anything seen in our own summer skies to shame. Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.If Earth was showing a full or gibbous phase, through your telescope you would see its familiar green continents and blue oceans on the dayside, and the lights of its cities glinting on the nightside. However, your views of incredible sights such as the Orion Nebula, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Pleiades star cluster might be ruined by the fact that it would be difficult to get close to your telescope eyepiece due to the bulky visor of your spacesuit helmet.
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