What do clouds on Mars look like? Well, a new video stitched together from images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover offers a glimpse. In this video, delicate red-and-green-tinted clouds are seen ...
For the fourth year in a row, iridescent clouds of frozen CO2 are lighting the Martian sky. The clouds appear in the same place, at the same time of year.
Like Earth, Mars has its own seasonal weather patterns, but with its different atmosphere that weather can include some unusual phenomena, such as striking colorful clouds. A recent video created ...
Amid the flowing clouds are red and green hues. Though these high fliers also can be observed at the edge of space above Earth, there are distinct differences between Mars' mother-of-pearl clouds ...
In January 2023, NASA's Curiosity rover captured images of noctilucent clouds during a Martian sunset, including a rare category of iridescent bright noctilucent clouds that appear feather-shaped ...
In the mid- and upper-latitudes on Earth, during the early evening hours, thin and wispy clouds can sometimes be observed in the upper atmosphere. These clouds have an ethereal feel and consist of ice ...
While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...
Nasa has shared a video of some pretty cool-looking clouds, spotted above the planet Mars. Their Curiosity rover - a robot helping scientists learn more about Mars - captured this amazing video ...
Thus, the studies by Curiosity about such clouds reveal more about Mars' atmosphere; in that, discoveries have been made not only on water-ice clouds but also on those with carbon-dioxide ice ...
The polar ice cap at the south pole is particularly bright, and wispy clouds are seen most clearly around the planet’s curved horizons. Mars is easily identifiable in the night sky by its ...
Yet, why the twilight clouds haven't been observed elsewhere on Mars remains a puzzle for Lemmon and other scientists. For example, the Perseverance rover has not detected any twilight clouds ...