"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." ...

Sunlight will reflect off the snow pack and it appears as a solid white area that doesn't move when you put the satellite into loop mode. With infrared satellites, the whiter clouds represent ...

Other images show the clouds as white plumes falling through the atmosphere, before evaporating about 31 miles above Mars. Did you know that Mars has *iridescent* clouds? Spotted by the ...

where it is cooler than at the surface and causes carbon dioxide in Mars' atmosphere to condense into clouds. Some of the ice crystals can be seen raining down on the surface as thick, white ...