Clouds Over Tharsis on Mars
Explanation:
When and where do clouds form on
Mars? The
Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft currently orbiting
Mars is finding out.
Photographs
released last week showed
clouds forming above
Tharsis, a huge bulge on Mars about 4000 kilometers
across and 7 kilometers high containing several
large volcanoes. These
clouds
temporarily disappeared as a
large dust storm emerged from the South,
the
first developing dust storm to be tracked by
an orbiting spacecraft.
Mars Global Surveyor continues to
aerobrake during on its ongoing
mission to survey the planet Mars.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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