The US space agency, Curiosity, may beNASA), obsessed with rocks and geology on the ground level, but he also documented what happens in the sky of Mars.
This week, the agency released GIF images taken by the probe in December 2021, showing what the movement of clouds across Mars looks like, according to the American CNET website.
While the images showed a view that includes the planet Mars, a second movie revealed clouds moving directly over Curiosity’s probe.
In addition, NASA said that the height of the clouds above the surface of Mars reaches 80 kilometers, and is not as low as on Earth, where it reaches between 2 and 6 kilometers.
She explained that photographing Mars’ clouds requires special techniques, which were provided by several lenses on the Curiosity spacecraft, which also photographed the passage of its shadows on the planet’s land.
The Curiosity probe (AFP)
The site also added that NASA scientists said that the ice cloud cover of Mars may have supported the rivers and lakes in it, because the presence of ice clouds at high altitudes could keep the planet warm enough for the presence of rivers and lakes.
He emphasized that Mars is a completely different place from Earth, but such images show some similarities between the two planets.