This panorama mosaic, taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on board NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, documents the passage of the midnight sun over several days. The foreground and sky images were taken on Sol 54, or the 54th Martian day of the mission (July 20, 2008). The solar images were taken between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., local solar time,
This panorama mosaic, taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on board NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, documents the passage of the midnight sun over several days.
The foreground and sky images were taken on Sol 54, or the 54th Martian day of the mission (July 20, 2008). The solar images were taken between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., local solar time, during the nights of sols 46 to 56. During this period of 11 sols, the sun’s path got slightly lower over the northern horizon, causing the lack of smoothness to the curve. This image captures the polar nature of the Phoenix mission in its similarity to time lapse pictures taken above the Arctic Circle on Earth.Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University