Mars Sunrise And Sunset Captured In Stunning Images By NASA's InSight [PHOTOS]

Mars' sunrise and sunset were recently captured on camera by NASA's InSight lander, giving us a glimpse of what it would be like to live on the Red Planet.

On its official Twitter page, NASA shared new images taken by InSight on April 24 and 25 showing how the sunrise and sunset appear from Mars. One photo taken by the lander's Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) attached to its robotic arm provides a stunning view of the sun rising on the Mars horizon.

The image was captured on the lander's 145th Martian day at around 5:30 a.m. Mars local time.

The second image from InSight showed the sun setting at around 6:30 p.m. Mars local time. As shown in the photos, the Sun appears much smaller from Mars than it does from Earth due to their varying distances from our local star. Since Mars is much farther, the Sun only appears two-thirds the size than it does from our planet.

The Mars sunrise and sunset images come in color-corrected versions, which shows the views as how the human eye would see. The "raw" versions of the InSight shots, however, provide more details.

This is not the first time the InSight Mars spacecraft has taken images of these daily events. On March 2 and 10, the lander also took photos of the sunrise and sunset.

"It's been a tradition for Mars missions to capture sunrises and sunsets," Justin Maki, InSight science team co-investigator and imaging lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement on NASA's website. "With many of our primary imaging tasks complete, we decided to capture the sunrise and sunset as seen from another world."

The first NASA spacecraft to give us a look into the sunrise and sunset on Mars was the Viking 1 lander. On Aug. 21, 1976, the lander took a photo of the sunset from Martian soil, and its successor, Viking 2, captured a sunrise two years later.

NASA's succeeding Mars missions, Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity, have followed in their predecessors' footsteps and captured many sunrises and sunsets on Mars.

Check out the images below for more stunning images of Mars’ sunrises and sunsets taken over the past four decades.