Massive Cloud Cover on Mars in 4K spotted by Curiosity Rover on March 27, 2021

On March 27, 2021 NASA’s Curiosity Rover send HI-RES 4K UHD panoramic image from MARS’s sky with massive Martian Clouds. All images are non-edited to see Mars in real colors. Martian clouds and are animated from series of images. Dust storms are common during perihelion, when the planet receives 40 percent more sunlight than during aphelion (when Mars is farthest from the Sun). This annual variation in sunlight results in a 20°C increase in temperature during perihelion. The increased temperature causes continental-scale dust storms at the planet’s surface. The dust is swept aloft to altitudes of tens of kilometers, where it spreads globally, absorbs light from the Sun, and heats the entire atmosphere by about another 15°-28°C. Mars also has a distinctive aphelion climate. The cold atmospheric conditions during aphelion stimulate the formation of planetwide belts of water ice clouds surrounding the planet at altitudes of 3 to 10 km. Surface dust raised by low dust storms is confined to low altitudes (about 10
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