This elongated cloud has formed as a result of wind encountering the Arsia Mons mountains. It forms almost every day during a specific season, from early morning until noon. ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/A.

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is providing the images for the Mars cloudspotting project. Like Earth, Mars has clouds. NASA wants to harness your cloudspotting skills for a citizen-science project aimed at ...

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Like clockwork, a strange cloud has returned high above the Martian surface. This long, thin cloud was spotted on July 17 and 19 by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) attached to Mars Express, a ...

A weird long cloud has formed so many times over the same Martian volcano that scientists have given up and named it. Meet the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, or AMEC. Its long bright trail has become a ...

In a landmark study published in theJournal of Geophysical Research: Planets, researchers have uncovered the first complete picture of nighttime clouds on Mars, thanks to data from the Emirates Mars ...

Until now, Mars has generally been regarded as a desert world, where a visiting astronaut would be surprised to see clouds scudding across the orange sky. However, new results show that the arid ...

A cloud longer than California streaks across Mars' ruddy cheek. It looks as though an impressionist painter loaded his palette knife with white and scraped a line across the canvas as far as the oily ...

Despite having radically different atmospheres, Mars and Earth seem to have similar cloud patterns, hinting that the features may form in much the same way. The observations, obtained by the European ...

At the end of 2020, planetary scientist Marek Slipski found himself glued to his computer, spending countless hours—more than he’d like to admit, he says—poring over image after image of the Martian ...

Humans haven’t set foot on Mars — yet — but we’ve already got the maps drawn up. A new map released earlier this month shows the Red Planet in all its dusty glory. The map was created with real photos ...