Recently the Mars Curiosity rover captured rare and beautiful noctilucent clouds above the Red Planet with its Mastcam instrument.
The weather on Mars is of great interest to astronauts who may one day venture there and recently the Mars Curiosity rover captured rare and beautiful noctilucent clouds above the Red Planet.
Curiosity’s Mastcam instrument captured night-shining clouds for 16 minutes on January 17 and the footage has perplexed scientists who don’t understand why the clouds only seem to appear in one location in Mars’s atmosphere at thecaptured these colorful clouds drifting across the Martian sky.
“I’ll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact,” says Mark Lemmon, an atmospheric scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. “Now it’s become so predictable that we can plan our shots in advance; the clouds show up at exactly the same time of year.”“Carbon dioxide was not expected to be condensing into ice here, so something is cooling it to the point that it could happen,” adds Lemmon.
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