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Curiosity rover captures rare iridescent noctilucent clouds on mars
The clouds, composed of carbon dioxide ice crystals, glow in shades of red, green, and pearlescent hues in the martian twilight.
Sharp Martian Rocks Turns Curiosity Rover
NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route to continue exploring Mount Sharp. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NAS
Curiosity Rover Spots Surprisingly Colorful ‘Twilight Clouds’ on Mars
The iridescent cloud reveals new clues about ice formation in the Martian atmosphere (no little green men, sorry).
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.
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 overhead on Jan. 17. These clouds, sometimes referred to as twilight clouds because they're too faint to see in daylight, appear iridescent by scattering light from the setting sun.
Curiosity rover captures colorful clouds drifting over Mars
Red-and-green-tinted clouds drift through the Martian sky in a new set of images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its Mastcam—its main set of "eyes." Taken over 16 minutes on Jan. 17 (the 4,426th Martian day,
Colorful Clouds on Mars Show Up at the Same Time Each Year, Rover Snaps Them on Film
American space agency NASA publishes a short video showing iridescent clouds moving in the thin Martian atmosphere, as seen by the Curiosity rover
NASA says Mars rover has discovered liquid 'ripples' on Red Planet rock
Curiosity has been exploring the Gale Crater since August 2012. According to NASA, Curiosity was the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars when it launched in 2011. Its recordings aimed to answer the question: Did Mars ever have the right environmental conditions to support small life forms called microbes?
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.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Makes First Discovery of Pure Sulfur on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock. This finding is considered a significant scientific breakthrough, as pure sulfur had never been detected on Mars before.
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NASA Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient Waves of Liquid Water on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered wave-like patterns carved into Martian rock, suggesting that liquid water existed on the ...
NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock — and it could rewrite the Red Planet's history
NASA's Curiosity rover photographed remnants of rippling waves in an ancient Martian lakebed, proving that the Red Planet had ...
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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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A Rainbow-colored "Feather" In Martian Sky
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023. Studying the ...