NASA’s Perseverance rover sends back awesome image of ‘rainbow’ on Mars

Rainbows are one of those things that can get just about anyone to stop and glance toward the sky. They're cool to look at and because they're fleeting, enjoying one while it's there just feels like the right thing to do. In a recent photo published by NASA, it appears as though the space agency's newly-landed Perseverance rover enjoyed a rainbow of its own, but is it really a rainbow or something else entirely?

The photo, which was snapped by the rover's rear left hazard avoidance camera — the rover has several of these so that it knows what is around it and can avoid obstacles if needed — shows what looks a whole lot like a slightly-less-colorful rainbow streaking across the Martian sky. Of course, a rainbow would require a significant amount of water to be floating around in the planet's atmosphere, and since we know that's not the case there has to be some other explanation.

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