Admire the soothing view of NASA on rolling clouds on Mars

Sometimes it's nice to take a moment to enjoy the wonderful view of the clouds breaking in the sky, even if you're on Mars. NASA's InSight satellite had a particularly charming view of some fluffy Martian clouds this week. Check out this GIF from them ride.

Paul Hammond, a citizen scientist known for processing NASA images from Mars machines, assembled the GIF from a series captured by InSight and tweeted it on Thursday. NASA is broadcasting online InSight views on the Red Planet in the form of raw images in a gallery.

InSight arrived on Mars in November 2018 to study the interior of the planet, which includes listen to marsquakes. This also gives us a glimpse of its rocky, dusty and far away home on Elysium Planitia, a vast area of ​​plains near the equator.

InSight has already returned a gloriously ghostly sunset. The cloud sequence of Hammond allows Mars to feel closer than ever. You can see parts of the lander and the round dome covering his seismometer. These are the best clues that this is not the Earth.

For more coverage of Martian clouds, see this Granite Curiosity rover from 2017.

The relaxing view of the InSight sky could make you want to book your next vacation on Mars, but make no mistake. The last Weather Mars from Elysium Planitia shows a maximum of -3 Fahrenheit (-19 degrees Celsius) and a low of -145 Fahrenheit (-98 degrees Celsius). I'm just going to watch these clouds from far away from Mars, thanks.