A Two Martian Years Survey of Water Ice Clouds on Mars with ACS onboard TGO - Astrobiology News


8/23/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 8 months ago
by Keith Cowing

We determine that the typical altitude of the clouds varies by 20 to 40 km between the summer and winter.

Vertical profiles of the measured opacity of the Martian atmosphere (kext = d/dz, in km1) at 3.4 m as observed by ACS-MIR over mid-MY 35 to mid-MY 36. To highlight the seasonal variations of the clou… [+2126 chars]

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