Just some days later, the rover took one other distinctive picture of sunbeams peeking out from behind cloud formations, options generally known as crepuscular rays. (The distinction was enhanced within the picture above.) That is the primary time the sort of mild sample was caught on Mars.
Each photographs are a part of a survey being carried out from January to mid-March. The survey first started in 2021 and centered on finding out noctilucent, or night time shining clouds. Martian clouds are sometimes positioned some 37 miles (60 kilometers) above the bottom and are often full of water ice. Nonetheless, the clouds in these photographs are believed to reside greater within the ambiance. In that case, the attractive clouds pictured listed below are almost definitely product of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice.
Curiosity was launched to the planet in 2011 with the aim of finding out martian environments and geology, in addition to looking for biomarkers suggestive of previous or current life on the Crimson Planet. By now finding out the planet’s clouds in surveys like this, Curiosity is providing perception into Mars’ atmospheric composition, winds, and total climate patterns.
