STRAIGHT FROM MARS

NASA's Curiosity rover records videos of Martian day, from dawn to dusk

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has recorded two black-and-white videos of a Martian day, from dawn to dusk. The rover captured its own shadow shifting across the surface of Mars using its black-and-white Hazard-Avoidance Cameras, or Hazcams and recorded the videos on November 8, the 4,002nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission, NASA said.

Instructions to record the videos were part of the last set of commands beamed up to Curiosity just before the start of Mars solar conjunction, a period when the Sun is between Earth and Mars -- from November 11 to 25.