Mars, NASA and Curiosity

NASA's Curiosity Rover captures breathtaking video of colourful twilight clouds on Mars
The phenomenon of twilight clouds was first observed on Mars in 1997 during NASA’s Pathfinder mission. However, it wasn’t until 2019 that the Curiosity Rover captured the first-ever images of iridescence in Martian clouds.
NASA rover captures images of mysterious "mother-of-pearl" clouds above Mars
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 rover's eyes. The clouds were spotted on Jan. 17, and the photos were taken over the course of 16 minutes, the space agency said in a news release.
Curiosity rover spots rare shimmering clouds above Mars
The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus Earth’s roughly 93 million miles), but it also has to do with the planet’s atmosphere. A great example of the effects can be seen in the Red Planet’s noctilucent clouds.
'Iridescent' clouds on Mars captured in Martian twilight in stunning NASA rover images (video)
"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact."
Curiosity rover captures colorful clouds drifting over Mars
Red-and-green-tinted clouds drift through the Martian sky in a new set of images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its Mastcam—its main set of "eyes." Taken over 16 minutes on Jan. 17 (the 4,426th Martian day,
Colorful Clouds on Mars Show Up at the Same Time Each Year, Rover Snaps Them on Film
American space agency NASA publishes a short video showing iridescent clouds moving in the thin Martian atmosphere, as seen by the Curiosity rover
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Mesmerizing Iridescent Clouds Drifting Over Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured breathtaking images of iridescent clouds drifting across the Martian sky, revealing a celestial spectacle unlike anything seen before. These clouds, composed of frozen carbon dioxide ice,
Curiosity recorded alien rainbow-colored clouds sweeping over Mars
Curiosity, a set of NASA's robotic "eyes" on the Red Planet, recorded 16 minutes of so-called noctilucent clouds flying ...
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Mars was hot then cold then hot again. Could life have really survived there?
Scientists may have figured out how Mars hung onto its surface liquid water in its ancient history via alternating periods of hot and cold. But what would the impact have been on habitability?
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We may finally know what causes Mars' gigantic, planet-wide dust storms
Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests.
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Explaining persistent hydrogen in Mars' atmosphere
These estimates are consistent with geologic features on Mars today. The warm, wet periods were driven by crustal hydration, or water being lost to the ground, which supplied enough hydrogen to ...
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Perseverance rover's Mars samples show traces of ancient water, but NASA needs them on Earth to seek signs of life
NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...
Are Musk’s Mars dreams a fantasy?
Musk has long envisioned colonists on Mars. This seems like a fever dream, but it recently featured in Trump’s inaugural ...