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Morning On Mars

 Martian sunrises, as seen by the HiRISE orbiter

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These are (very beautiful) CG renderings done by artist Kees Veenenbos in 2005. Let’s not remove credit from talented artists, dudes.

In case you’re interested, HiRISE is not an orbiter itself but is the name of a camera affixed to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The camera is there to take super detailed, very up-close pictures of the Martian surface like this astonishing one of dust-devil trails across the ground: