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“as in cirrus clouds on Earth..”

Tue 30 September 2008, 1:01am

Sunrise on Mars

Just as the Jules Verne burns up in our atmosphere there are more wondrous images from the NASA Mars Phoenix lander. Beginning with sunrise on the lander’s 101st day on Mars – where the snow may well be general too.. They’ve also photographed some clouds on Sept. 18, 2008, during early afternoon hours of the 113th Martian day of the mission – “The particles in the clouds are water-ice, as in cirrus clouds on Earth.” [image below the fold] So, terraforming then?
As I was saying, they’ve also photographed some clouds on Sept. 18, 2008, during early afternoon hours of the 113th Martian day of the mission – “The particles in the clouds are water-ice, as in cirrus clouds on Earth.”

Martian clouds

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