Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Clouds Over Tharsis on Mars
Explanation:
When and where do clouds form on Mars [ http://www.seds.org…]? The Mars Global Surveyor [ http://mars.jpl.nas…] spacecraft currently orbiting Mars [ http://pds.jpl.nasa…] is finding out. Photographs [ http://www.jpl.nasa…] released [ http://www.jpl.nasa…] last week showed clouds [ http://photojournal…] forming above Tharsis [ http://pds.jpl.nasa…], a huge bulge on Mars about 4000 kilometers across and 7 kilometers high containing several large volcanoes [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. These clouds [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] temporarily disappeared as a large dust storm emerged from the South [ http://www.sciencem…], the first developing dust storm [ ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.g…] to be tracked by an orbiting spacecraft. Mars Global Surveyor continues to aerobrake [ http://mars.jpl.nas…] during on its ongoing mission to survey the planet Mars.
Credit and Copyright:
MOC Team [ http://mpfwww.jpl.n…], MGS [ http://mars.jpl.nas…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
keyword:
Mars
keyword:
atmosphere
facet_where:
Mars
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_what:
Mars
facet_what:
Surveyor
facet_what:
clouds
facet_what:
Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS)
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap980317

Clouds Over Tharsis on Mars
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