MARCI weather report, October 17-23, 2016

Local dust storms continued along the receding seasonal south polar ice cap edge this past week. Meanwhile, on the other side of the red planet, transient dust storms just south of the north polar hood were observed over Deuteronilus and northwestern Arabia Terra. Northeastern Hellas and Terra Sabaea also encountered some dust lifting activity at the beginning of the week. Typical for this time of season, afternoon water-ice clouds were… [More at link]