Since the time NASA’s Curiosity has landed on Mars, it has been sending vital information to scientists on earth. This year, the $2.5 billion worth rover has been able to know some significant information with regard to the Red Planet.

Equipped with many instruments, Curiosity has detected traces of past fluid events on Mars. It has also found elements of life in the Martian soil. Its latest discovery is the one that we might see in science-fiction movies, a blue sunset.

Last week, NASA posted colorful images of how sunset looks like from Mars. Last month, Curiosity captured the images at the time it was in the Gale Crater. NASA has shown the images in series.

The animation comprises of four photos that were taken in six minutes and 51 seconds. What was more interesting, Curiosity has grabbed these images after a dust-storm that made the entire event more akin to a science fiction.

As per NASA, small particles were present in the Martian atmosphere at the time when Curiosity took the photos. These tiny particles allowed “blue light to penetrate the atmosphere more efficiently than longer-wavelength colors”. When blue light scatters off the dust, it remains closer to the direction of the sun.

In August 2012, the rover landed on Mars’ Gale Crater in order to find out whether or not Mars has supported microbial life at any point of time. The rover was successful in gathering evidence using which researchers concluded that an area near the landing site has the potential to be a habitable lake-and-stream system billions of years ago.

Curiosity is present in the foothills of Mt. Sharp, which rises 3.4 miles into the Martian sky from Gale’s center.