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Mysterious colorful clouds drift through Mars’s sky in new Curiosity images

A recent video created from images captured by Curiosity shows clouds tinted red and green flowing though the sky over Mars. Captured using the rover’s Mastcam instrument on January 17, 2025, the video shows the clouds during twilight on the red planet.

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Curiosity rover spots rare shimmering clouds above Mars

The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus Earth’s roughly 93 million miles), but it also has to do with the planet’s atmosphere. A great example of the effects can be seen in the Red Planet’s noctilucent clouds.

Hindustan Times on MSN · 10h

NASA's Curiosity Rover captures breathtaking video of colourful twilight clouds on Mars

The phenomenon of twilight clouds was first observed on Mars in 1997 during NASA’s Pathfinder mission. However, it wasn’t until 2019 that the Curiosity Rover captured the firs

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NASA rover captures mysterious colorful clouds drifting through Mars sky

NASA has released stunning images of mysterious colorful clouds drifting in the sky over Mars. Captured by NASA's Curiosity rover on January 17 over the course of 16 minutes, the images show noctilucent,

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Mars has spectacular, glowing clouds at sunset

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured stunning images of Martian twilight clouds, revealing iridescent dry ice formations on Mars.

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Kelvin-Helmholtz Clouds: The Sky's Version of Ocean Waves

But few are fortunate enough to see Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, which look like a pattern of ocean waves in the sky. Kelvin-Helmholtz ... to appear around sunrise or sunset, which is when lower ...

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Curiosity recorded alien rainbow-colored clouds sweeping over Mars

Curiosity, a set of NASA 's robotic "eyes" on the Red Planet, recorded 16 minutes of so-called noctilucent clouds flying ...

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Characterizing the Space Between Clouds and Clear Sky

The area near clouds is often classified as ‘clear sky’, but a new study demonstrates the potential biases of misclassifying ...

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Stunning sunrise and sunset photos from readers: top picks

Readers’ photos celebrate sunrises and sunsets, when the light is the most pleasing. Fifty-one photos were sent in; here are ...

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What causes spectacular red and orange sunsets?

Few things make us stop to appreciate the natural world as much as a beautiful sunset ... clouds, and you get this strong red light coming down to you, sitting on the ground in the dark.” Red ...

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In Photos: Venus And The Crescent Moon Dazzle — When To See It Next

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. What's that bright ... low-lying clouds over the eastern Pacific Ocean in recent years. That's exactly where increases ...

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AI system gives probabilities for sea of clouds at ‘castle in the sky’

TAKAHASHI, Okayama Prefecture--A university lab is providing artificial intelligence-based probabilities on whether a sea of clouds will form around the “mountain castle in the sky” here.

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Rare 'UFO clouds' spotted in UK skies

also referred to by some as pancake or UFO clouds. At their most spectacular around sunrise or sunset when illuminated by the low sun, they need the right weather patterns to make an appearance ...

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What’s That Bright White ‘Star’ In The West After Sunset?

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. What’s the bright star in the west after sunset ... it has permanent clouds of sulfuric acid that make it highly reflective ...

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