Researchers recently presented a stunning new “cloud atlas” of Mars: a database containing 20 years’ worth of images of clouds and storms observed on the red planet. The cloud atlas is ...

To better understand Mars and its atmosphere, NASA is asking for help spotting clouds on the Red Planet. Scientists are inviting the public to identify Martian clouds as part of a new project to ...

identify mesospheric clouds. These float at altitudes between 50 and 80 kilometers from the surface, and can be seen in data from the Mars Climate Sounder, an instrument orbiting the planet to ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/SSI 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 ...

The clouds of Mars are one of the mysteries of the Red Planet's atmosphere, and now a new NASA initiative is being launched to solve it – and you can help. The project, called Cloudspotting on ...

New images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the ...

In January 2023, NASA's Curiosity rover captured images of noctilucent clouds during a Martian sunset, including a rare ...

These twilight clouds aren’t just a rare sight—they may be only capable of forming above specific regions of Mars. Both the Curiosity and Pathfinder rovers (respectively located above and ...

Mars isn’t exactly known for being a cloudy place. It’s dry, dusty, and barren, but the planet does indeed have a bit of cloud cover. Figuring out why those clouds exist and where they came ...

The effect is similar to Earth’s “mother-of-pearl” clouds, where light interacts with ice particles to create a mesmerizing ...

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