Mars' Oddest Cloud May Be Even Odder than Previously Thought
A new model says water vapor freezes directly into ice at high altitude, and adding that process finally reproduced the cloud’s 1,100-mile tail.
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1,000-mile-long cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day obeys 'exotic physics' never seen on Earth
New simulations suggest that the perplexing Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC) repeatedly emerges in the Red Planet's skies thanks to a never-before-seen meteorological process.
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The Independent (US)Mars’s strangest cloud is even weirder than we thought, scientists say
Martian surface has objects with ‘exotic physics’, researchers say
A new work shows that the 1,800 km cloud that appears every spring next to a Martian volcano is formed without the need for particles, through a nucleation process that on Earth can only be reproduced in Hemeroteca laboratories - The sharpest image of the surface of the Sun approaches us like never before the prediction of solar storms In September 2018, Spanish researcher Jorge Hernández Bernal discovered a shadow in one of the images taken by …
Mars' oddest cloud may be even odder than previously thought
Scientists using the European Space Agency's Mars Express, in combination with a state-of-the-art meteorological model of the Red Planet, have found that there may be some exotic physics behind Mars' most curious cloud. The paper, "Homogeneous ice Nucleation from Water Vapour Suggested by Elongated Clouds on Mars," is published in Nature Geoscience.
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