Photo: NASA rover captures unusual clouds, the first sun rays on Mars:
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Curiosity Captures First Clear Sun Rays on MarsNASA says the high-altitude clouds photographed on February 2 could be made of dry ice.
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- Curiosity recorded the image on February 2 as the sun set behind a group of twilight clouds, and NASA released it on Monday.
- The clouds’ unusual altitude suggests they are probably made of carbon dioxide ice, also known as dry ice.
- Both images were assembled from a series of 28 pictures and edited, according to NASA, to emphasize the bright areas.
- The new observation campaign began in January and runs until mid-March, relying more heavily on Curiosity’s color camera.
"Where we see iridescence, it means a cloud's particle sizes are identical to their neighbors in each part of the cloud," atmospheric scientist Mark Lemmon said in the release. "By looking at color transitions, we're seeing particle size changing across the cloud. That tells us about the way the cloud is evolving and how its particles are changing size over time."— Mark Lemmon, atmospheric scientist, in NASA's press release about the Curiosity rover's observations of Martian clouds
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