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Tag Archives: atmosphere
THEMIS: Cloudy day – false color
THEMIS Image of the Day, October 23, 2015. The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. These false color images may reveal subtle variations … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona State University, ASU, atmosphere, clouds, color, Mars Odyssey, NASA, Noachis Terra, THEMIS, Thermal Emission Imaging System
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MARCI weather report, October 12-18, 2015
Dust storm activity was relatively more calm this past week on Mars. As the south polar hood continued to develop, another pulse of dust lifting activity occurred northwest of Argyre and extended into Valles Marineris. A local scale dust storm … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, clouds, dust, Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI, Mars Color Imager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, MSSS, NASA, storms, weather, wind
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MARCI weather report, October 5-11, 2015
During the past week, the large dust storm north of Deuteronilus noted previously had quickly dissipated. In the southern hemisphere, dust storms were observed over Aonia and western Argyre. This activity later reached into Valles Marineris and obscured the canyon … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, clouds, dust, Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI, Mars Color Imager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, MSSS, NASA, storms, weather, wind
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MARCI weather report, Sept 28-October 4, 2015
For the past week on Mars, dust storms and diffuse water-ice clouds were spotted north of the developing south polar hood. Meanwhile, on the other side of the red planet, a long reaching dust storm occurred over Arcadia. Towards the … Continue reading
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Protecting Mars astronauts from space radiation
On Aug. 7, 1972, in the heart of the Apollo era, an enormous solar flare exploded from the sun’s atmosphere. Along with a gigantic burst of light in nearly all wavelengths, this event accelerated a wave of energetic particles. Mostly … Continue reading
MARCI weather report, September 21-27, 2015
A slight uptick in dust lifting activity was observed last week on Mars. Small local storms were spotted over Solis and areas north of Argyre at the beginning of the week. Dust activity reached into the eastern canyons of Valles … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, clouds, dust, Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI, Mars Color Imager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, MSSS, NASA, storms, weather, wind
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MARCI weather report, September 14-20, 2015
Diffuse water-ice cloud activity continued in the equatorial latitudes this past week as the aphelion cloud-belt developed. Each sol, dust activity and optically thick water-ice clouds were observed along the receding north polar ice cap edge. In the southern hemisphere, … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, clouds, dust, Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI, Mars Color Imager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, MSSS, NASA, storms, weather, wind
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MARCI weather report, September 7-13, 2015
Last week on Mars, afternoon condensate water-ice clouds were abundant over the western hemisphere’s topographic highs. Further south, dust storms and diffuse water-ice clouds continued to develop along the northern boundary of the south polar hood. A large transient dust … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, clouds, dust, Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI, Mars Color Imager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, MSSS, NASA, storms, weather, wind
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MARCI weather report, Aug 31-Sept 6, 2015
For the past week on Mars, condensate water-ice clouds and dust storms continued to propagate eastward along the seasonal north polar ice cap edge. Further south, in the equatorial latitudes, diffuse water-ice clouds were spotted over Tempe, Alba Patera, Elysium, … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, clouds, dust, Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI, Mars Color Imager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, MSSS, NASA, storms, weather, wind
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MAVEN: Deep-dip campaign #4 begins
MAVEN has successfully entered the fourth deep-dip campaign of the mission. Two maneuvers executed over the past two days have placed the MAVEN spacecraft into a deep-dip corridor, with a periapsis altitude of 121.2 km (75.3 mi), where Mars’ atmospheric … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, MAVEN, NASA, University of Colorado
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