Mars View of Atmosphere

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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.

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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.

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'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."

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Mars has spectacular, glowing clouds at sunset

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured stunning images of Martian twilight clouds, revealing iridescent dry ice formations on Mars.

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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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Ingenuity measurements reveal surprising wind speeds on Mars

One of my gripes with "The Martian" movie was the depiction of the winds on Mars. The lower air density means that the sort of high speed winds we might experience on Earth carry far less of an impact ...

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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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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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