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How much light is there on Mars?

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Mars is roughly 1.5 times as far away from the Sun as the Earth is. The amount of light reaching an object declines as the square of its distance from the sun. 1.5 X 1.5 = 2.25. Thus Mars gets 2.25 times less light than the Earth does, or about 44% as much as the Earth.

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Maybe NO i pretty sure it aways stays red because of the suns angles of rays
Yes, compared to the Earth, the sky will appear pretty dark for someone on Mars.

In the bright daytime, since Mars is 1.67 times farther away from the Sun than the Earth and thus appears aout 40% dimmer than we see it on the Earth, and also since Mars is a deserted planet with no man-made source of light, Mars is about as dark as a cloudy late afternoon on the Earth, except that because of Mars's thinner atmosphere compared to the Earth, the sky will be butterscotch and the Sun will have a shade of blue.

During nighttime, the Earth wins again for having a brighter sky than Mars. Why is this? Well, we can still have bright nights on the Earth, thanks to the Moon, a large object which reflects sunlight to us. However, Mars has only 2 small moons. Because of its closeness to Mars, Phobos is not visible at all north of 70.4 degrees North or south of 70.4 degrees South, and because it's tiny compared to the Moon, even if you were at the specific area on Mars where you can see it, it wouldn't give you much light. Deimos, Mars's other natural satellite, on the other hand, is so far away (though still very close compared to the Moon's distance from the Earth) and utterly small that it can only be seen as a distant star. Again, the lack of man-made light also contributes to Mars's darkness.

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The sunlight is weaker but it has days and nights like earth does.

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Sunlight on Mars is similar to sunlight on Earth. However, dust storms on the planet can obscure sunlight for several weeks.

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it is very bright on mars because of the sun

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Yes. The sun shines on Mars just as it does on Earth. Just as Earth does, Mars has day and night, and features on its surface cast shadows.

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mars has lightness and darkness

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Yes.

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no

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