Weird Phenomena and Weather on Mars
Photo 1: Winter Frost
Frost, fog and clouds cover the rim of Mars’ Lomonosov Crater, a lava-filled basin located in the planet’s northern plains.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Photo 2: Spring Thaw
Ah, springtime on Mars. A time when the dry ice cracks and sand escapes from the dunes below.
This image, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows bluish cracks in the carbon dioxide ice covering dunes on the planet’s north pole. The dark fan-shaped deposits around the edges of the dunes are places where the carbon dioxide ice has sublimated, or transformed directly into gas, which causes ruptures in layer of dry ice. That allows underlying sand to escape, where it is picked up and blown by the wind.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA
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