The rays appear when sunlight shines through gaps in the cloud during sunrise or sunset and have never been seen this clearly on the Red Planet before.
NASA's Curiosity rover recently snapped a stunning shot of dazzling"sun rays" shining through unusually high clouds during a Martian sunset. It is the first time sun rays have been clearly visible on the Red Planet.
"It was the first time sun rays have been so clearly viewed on Mars," team members from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory wrote in a statement . Martian clouds, which are mostly made from ice crystals of both water and carbon dioxide, normally hover no more than 37 miles above the ground. But the clouds in the new image are estimated to be much higher, which is likely why this unusual phenomenon became visible to the rover, JPL representatives wrote.
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