One of the team's first ideas was to deposit a platform that spits space dust out at the Lagrange point L1, which lies about 900,000 miles inside Earth's orbit, directly between the sun and the Earth.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these "sun rays" shining through clouds at sunset on Feb. 2, 2023, the 3,730th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

These are known as crepuscular rays, from the Latin word for 'twilight' The Curiosity rover captured these 'sun rays' shining through clouds at sunset on February 2, 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS ...