The Dusty Days of Summer on Mars

On the Red Planet’s southern side, summer began on July 21. For scientists, that means another perplexing dust storm season. Head to our website to read the story! Mars

A close-up image of a dust storm on Mars on November 7, 2007. The weather on Mars is dusty — especially during the southern hemisphere’s spring and summer, when warmer temperatures produce stronger winds that stir the surface. Spinning columns of air known as

“Mars experiences intense variations in the amount of solar flux as it’s going around the Sun,” says lead author Ellen Creecy, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Houston. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed Mars on July 18, 2018, capturing a a dust storm that ballooned into a global event and blanketed the whole planet.

Recurring slope lineae, or RSL, are a type of dark marking that advances down some Martian slopes in warmer months and fades away in cooler months. 2021

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