MARCI weather report, May 28-June 3, 2018

The most prominent weather events last week were two large regional dust storms over the northern hemisphere of Mars. The large arcuate-shaped dust storm, reported the previous week, propagated eastward over the northern mid-latitudes of Utopia Planitia before abating. By midweek, a new dust storm had formed over the Ares III landing site featured in the book, ‘The Martian’. The dust storm moved southward along the Acidalia storm-track into Xanthe Terra. By the end of the week, the storm covered an area from eastern…  [More at link, including video]