Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Colorful Water Clouds Over Mars
Explanation:
One place where water can be found on Mars [ http://www.nineplan…] is in clouds [ http://www-airs.jpl…]. In the above picture [ http://photojournal…] colorful water clouds [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] are visible just after sunrise in and around a maze of canyons [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] known as Noctis Labyrinthus [ http://ic-www.arc.n…] (the labyrinth of the night). Scientists don't yet know, however, why these clouds formed [ http://apod.gsfc.na…and mars ], and why some stick to the canyons [ http://adsabs.harva…]. One exciting possibility is that water sometimes condenses [ http://faldo.atmos.…] in shaded regions [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] of the canyon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]s, only to evaporate [ http://school.disco…] into clouds when exposed to the morning Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Water in any form on the Martian surface [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] might be important to sustaining life and possible future human exploration [ http://mars.jpl.nas…]. Viking Orbiter 1 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…], which visited Mars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in 1976, took the above picture [ http://photojournal…]. The region shown is about 100 kilometers across.
Credit and Copyright:
Viking Project [ http://www-pdsimage…], USGS [ http://www.usgs.gov/], JPL [ http://www.jpl.nasa…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
keyword:
Mars
keyword:
clouds
keyword:
water
facet_when:
1976
facet_where:
Mars
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Mars
facet_what:
Atlas
facet_what:
Viking
facet_what:
AIRS
facet_what:
Viking 1 Orbiter
facet_what:
clouds
facet_when_year:
1976
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap010417

Colorful Water Clouds Over Mars
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