Tag Archives: storms

Martian weather this past week was little changed from the previous week. A larger diffuse dust cloud persisted at high south latitudes throughout the week. The cloud was sustained by daily, local dust storms coming north from the seasonal south … Continue reading →

For the past week on Mars, local-scale storm activity over Aonia and Sirenum led to murky conditions along the retreating seasonal south polar ice cap edge. Looking a bit further north, a couple short-lived isolated dust storms were spotted over … Continue reading →

Last week on Mars, dust-lifting activity over the northern hemisphere was relatively sporadic. Local-scale dust storms were observed over Amazonis and Deuteronilus. Looking to the southern hemisphere, repeated dust-lifting activity was spotted near the Mountains of Mitchel. This activity stretched … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

A slight increase in local-scale dust activity was observed on Mars last week. Looking to the southern highlands, transient dust storms were spotted over Cimmeria, Sirenum, and Aonia on multiple sols. Local-scale dust activity was also observed propagating southward from … Continue reading →

Dust-lifting activity across Mars was relatively uneventful compared to that of previous weeks. Looking to the northern hemisphere, short-lived dust storms and water-ice clouds occurred along the north polar hood. A bit further to the south, a solitary local dust … Continue reading →

The large dust storms east of Elysium which were mentioned in the previous report, quickly subsided after coalescing. Shortly thereafter, a subsequent dust storm appeared and moved southward across Amazonis. In the second half of the week, a dust storm … Continue reading →

Last week on Mars, a dust haze continued to loom over Noachis and other regions of the southern highlands. A bit further to the south, small local-scale dust storms were observed along the receding seasonal south polar ice cap edge. … Continue reading →

The diffuse, dusty conditions over Noachis and the southern mid-latitudes was all that remained of the regional dust storm that occurred earlier in the month. There was an indication at the beginning of the week, that the storm had entered … Continue reading →

The major regional dust storm mentioned in the previous week continued westward over Noachis. It combined with a small local-scale dust storm near the south polar ice cap edge and expanded further westward to the Argyre impact basin. After reaching … Continue reading →