Cloud enthusiasts have a new tool to investigate striking formations in the skies above the red planet. A browsable database ...

But the swirling skies in his masterpiece might be more than a projection of his inner turmoil. According to a new study, van ...

These clouds form when Mars’ thin atmosphere, primarily composed of carbon dioxide, interacts with dust and water vapor.

When Vincent van Gogh painted “ The Starry Night ” 135 years ago, he captured a subjective feeling about the heavens. But, as ...

Although Mars has a very thin atmosphere, numerous cloud formations and dust storm phenomena can develop from water and carbon dioxide ice crystals as well as dust particles. “Clouds on Mars are ...

Despite its thin atmosphere composed primarily of carbon dioxide, Mars can produce striking cloud formations when conditions ...

Using images captured by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, researchers have created a cloud atlas of Mars, to better understand the climate of the Red Planet ...

University of Wyoming King Air Atmospheric Research Aircraft is getting set to take flight, with its first research mission slated for summer 2025.

This technology will help supplement other data supplied by NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission, which similarly studies this atmospheric phenomenon. For the ...