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Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

fyi Amtrak has a guest rewards program for taking the train now

Yes it includes you can redeem them for travel, either by themselves or in combination with cash

When did they start? No idea. How does it work? They have a lot of details on their site! I just saw this because they sent me a big flashy email about how to redeem my points (which if they were smart is an email they'd make sure to send Often), so saying "I'm just the messenger" is honestly a big overstatement, more like I am leaving a small stack of fliers about on the counter of a public restroom.

I'll just answer with a link to the home page for their guest rewards program

Text from said Amtrak flyer:

Frequently Asked Questions

Credit Cards

SO MANY WAYS TO EARN SO MANY REWARDS AHEAD

LET THE EARNING BEGIN:

Learn more about all the different point-earning opportunities that help you get to rewards faster.

Amtrak Travel Earn 2 points per $1 spent, and a 25% point bonus for Business class travel and 50% for Acela First class.

Amtrak Guest Rewards® Preferred Mastercard® They're yours after spending $1,500 in the first 3 billing cycles of your account opening. Offers vary.

Retail & Specialty Partners Enjoy earning with flowers, gifts and more.

Rail Travel Partnerships Earn up to 10,000 points with a Rail Passengers Association membership depending on the membership level. With an RPA membership, members get discounts on Amtrak, regional trains, hotels and more.

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Please excuse the exhausting definition density of soulless marketing language

But yeah. Turns out, in the United States, Amtrak gives you loyalty points now. And like, an actually, genuinely, extremely reasonable point to money ratio, too, which I wasn't sure was still possible in 2026.

Boris "professional idiot" Johnson wanted to build an island airport in the immediate area.

it's fucking visible

You weren't kidding they've been trying to get the masts off for 5 years and keep getting foiled because there's probably bombs leaking out of her

there’s sixteen Colorado counties that their most searched was “wolf furry”, plus thirty-odd counties (not counting either Arapahoe or any of the ones marked here as “Insufficient Data”) which may well have had plenty of searches for “wolf furry”, just fewer than for whatever they’re labeled here

and “skunk furry” searches in Arapahoe County outnumbered “wolf furry” searches in the entire state of Colorado