Blue Mars sunset captured in NASA video

You don't have to join Mars One and commit to dying on the planet to see a Martian sunset NASA has released a new video showing what it would look like.

The Vine video posted by NASA earlier this week was recreated from photos taken by the Opportunity rover, which launched in 2003.

It might surprise you to see that while sunsets on Earth are reddish, the sunset on the Red Planet is bluish.

According to NASA, fine dust particles in Mars's thin atmosphere tend to make the planet'ssky look reddish normally.

"But the dust also scatters blue light in the forward direction, creating a bluish sky glow near the setting sun," NASA said in a caption for a sunset photo taken by Opportunity's twin, the Spirit rover, in 2005.

In fact, NASA captures sunset images in part to figure out how high into the atmosphere the dust goes and to look for clouds made of dust or ice.

The sun also looks very small because Mars is farther away from the sun than Earth.

However, the twilight glow lasts a lot longer on Mars than it does on Earth up to two hours after the sun sets.

That's because of all the dust in the atmosphere scattering the light from the side of the planet that's facing the sun.

Want to see a Mars-like sunset on Earth? NASA says itsometimes occurs after volcanic eruptions that scatter dust high into Earth's atmosphere.

Opportunity wasn't the only rover that provided a new perspective on Mars this week.

The Curiosity also sent back a stunning new selfie a mosaic of images captured using the camera on its robotic arm in January. The arm doesn't appear in the images.

Curiosity is standing on a site called "Mojave" on Mount Sharp, where it has been exploring and drilling samples for chemical analysis.

Want more imagery of Mars? Below is a photo gallery of some of the more interesting images captured by Curiosity and Opportunity last year.