The NASA rover is approaching its second year on Mars (in Earth time), and there are overcast days ahead.
northern hemisphere. Now, the Perseverance rover is seeing evidence of those clouds from theAdvertisementt scopes out the Martian landscape so the rover doesn’t take any false steps on the occasionally treacherous
terrain. But it also looks up once in a while, to give NASA scientists and the viewing public something to study and appreciate. In the recent photo—taken on January 29, or Sol 691 of the mission—a Martian sunrise looms from behind the diffuse cloud cover. The clouds are very thin because of how little water there is in the Martian atmosphere;
, if all the atmospheric water on Mars were on the planet’s surface, it would form a layer thinner than a strand of human hair.
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