Curiosity rover spots rare shimmering clouds above Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these drifting noctilucent, or twilight, clouds in a 16-minute recording on Jan. 17. (This looping clip has been speeded up about 480 times.) The white plumes falling out of the clouds are carbon dioxide ice that would evaporate closer to the Martian surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/SSIContinue Reading