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Mars’s Weirdest Cloud Forms in a Way Scientists Thought Was Impossible
The physical process likely behind this cloud's formation has never been observed in a planetary atmosphere before.
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During Mars’s dusty season, which runs through spring and summer in the Red Planet’s southern hemisphere, a wispy cloud of water ice appears downwind of the enormous Arsia Mons volcano. Aptly named the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC), this thin white line forms each day at sunrise, grows up to 1,100 miles (1,800 kilometers) long in just three hours, detaches from the volcano, and then disappears.
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter first spotted the AMEC back in 2018…
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