Mars's Arsia Mons cloud may form when water vapour turns straight to ice, a process never observed in a planetary atmosphere.
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A 1,000-mile cloud appears on Mars for months each Martian year ☁️
The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud forms beside a Martian volcano at dawn, stretches up to 1,800 km, and evaporates within hours, ...
The researchers used observations from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft alongside a meteorological model.
Mars Express can capture large stretches of the Martian surface at high resolution. Alongside ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ...
Researchers propose that Martian clouds form via rapid cooling rather than dust condensation, suggesting a new mechanism for ...
A study published in Nature Geoscience suggests that the cloud forms through a process called homogeneous ice nucleation.
During Mars’s dusty season, which runs through spring and summer in the Red Planet’s southern hemisphere, a wispy cloud of water ice appears downwind of the enormous Arsia Mons volcano. Aptly named ...
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