Mars, Curiosity and Noctilucent cloud

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 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.
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.
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,
NASA’s Curiosity rover captures colourful clouds drifting over Mars
Taken over 16 minutes on January 17 the images show noctilucent or twilight clouds tinged with colour. This video has been sped up about 480 times. The white plumes falling out of the clouds are carbon dioxide ice that would evaporate closer to the Martian surface.
Mars Rover Captures Video of Colorful Dry Ice Clouds Drifting Over Red Planet
Martian clouds are almost always made of dry ice, or frozen carbon dioxide. 95% of the planet's atmosphere is CO2.
There’s A Mysterious Web-like Structure On Mars’s Surface, And NASA’s Curiosity Rover Has Started Its Journey To Find Out What It Is
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has been traversing the red planet for over twelve years now, and has made some fascinating discoveries in that time. From telling us more about Mars’s weather and atmosphere, to confirming that the planet has the possibility of once supporting life,
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.
What life on Mars would probably look like – and it’s not little green men
Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape – attractive but dead, and certainly not home to any little green men.
Life on Mars? It probably looks like something you'd find in your stomach
We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...
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 ...
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.