Posted on 12/03/2024 12:56:55 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: If you could stand on Mars -- what might you see? You might look out over a vast orange landscape covered with rocks under a dusty orange sky, with a blue-tinted Sun over the horizon, and odd-shaped water clouds hovering high overhead. This was just the view captured last March by NASA's rolling explorer, Perseverance. The orange coloring is caused by rusted iron in the Martian dirt, some of which is small enough to be swept up by winds into the atmosphere. The blue tint near the rising Sun is caused by blue light being preferentially scattered out from the Sun by the floating dust. The light-colored clouds on the right are likely composed of water-ice and appear high in the Martian atmosphere. The shapes of some of these clouds are unusual for Earth and remain a topic of research.
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Those rovers really are bad ass.
You gotta give credit where due and NASA and all those involved did a great job with those.
Wow.
We often see clouds like that on earth. We call them Mare's Tails, formerly, Cirrus Uncinus.
“water clouds hovering high overhead.”
so there is water on Mars...
how is it there can be water ice clouds with no evidence of water evaporation points? whered the vapor come from?
And the rainbow colors are produced by ice crystals acting as prisms.
bttt
I hear democrats want to flip the planet blue. Better visit soon!
Sublimation off the ice caps, for one. Excellent article, here:
btt!
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