When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/SSI What do clouds on Mars look like? Well, a new video stitched ...

For the fourth year in a row, NASA's Curiosity rover has photographed iridescent clouds drifting across the Martian sky. The clouds appear in the same place, at the same time of year. On January 17, ...

Planetary scientists have discovered the highest clouds above any planetary surface. They found them above Mars using the SPICAM instrument on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft. The results are a ...

Scientists have unveiled the most extensive map of clouds on Mars ever created. For the past 20 years, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has photographed Martian clouds and ...

Despite being thinner and drier than Earth's atmosphere, Mars's atmosphere contains clouds composed of tiny water ice crystals. And just as on Earth, these clouds influence the planet's climate.

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 Curiosity rover photographed iridescent clouds drifting through the Martian skies. These rare clouds seem to be made of frozen carbon dioxide - dry ice - rather than water. Some "mother of ...

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 ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023, the 3,724th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Studying the colors in iridescent clouds ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

Mars will probably become the first planet in this Universe the human race will ever visit, and only then will we begin to get a true sense of the place. Because, even if we feel like we know a lot ...

NASA's Curiosity rover taking a picture of itself on Mars. (Photo/NASA/JPL) At the surface, Mars is a desolate, barren world with a rocky landscape, massive dust storms and extreme temperature swings.