The iridescent cloud reveals new clues about ice formation in the Martian atmosphere (no little green men, sorry).
Human beings have been striving for years to learn more about the planets neighboring Earth. In particular, the efforts have focused on Mars, where the Curiosity rover has been pla ...
Martian clouds are almost always made of dry ice, or frozen carbon dioxide. 95% of the planet's atmosphere is CO2.
NASA's Curiosity rover photographed remnants of rippling waves in an ancient Martian lakebed, proving that the Red Planet had ...
The clouds, composed of carbon dioxide ice crystals, glow in shades of red, green, and pearlescent hues in the martian ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured stunning images of Martian twilight clouds, revealing iridescent dry ice formations on Mars.
The phenomenon of twilight clouds was first observed on Mars in 1997 during NASA’s Pathfinder mission. However, it wasn’t ...
Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...
Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape – attractive but dead, and certainly not home to any little green men.