Mars, Curiosity and Noctilucent cloud
NASA’s Curiosity Rover captures stunning colorful clouds on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured breathtaking images of red and green-tinted clouds drifting across the Martian sky. These clouds, called noctilucent clouds (which means “night shining” in Latin), appear at twilight and are visible because the setting sun scatters light through them.
and they produce less colorful clouds. Type II PSCs are more iridescent in the hues they create, showcasing beautiful rainbow clouds more starkly in the sky. They’re often mistaken for ...
Martian clouds are almost always made of dry ice, or frozen carbon dioxide. 95% of the planet's atmosphere is CO2.
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Here's one: did you know, for instance, that iridescent clouds that shine in a variety of colors show up in the Martian sky at the same time and generally over the same place, year after year?
"I'll never forget seeing the iridescent clouds for the first time and thinking at first that it was some sort of color artifact," Mark Lemmon, an atmospheric scientist at the Space Science ...
Red-and-green-tinted clouds drift through the Martian sky in a new set of images captured ... shining"), or twilight clouds, tinged with color by scattering light from the setting sun.
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