Сirrus Clouds on Mars with potential liquid water component registered by NASA’s Curiosity Rover

Shifting gears from "Percy" to Curiosity, Cirrus Clouds on Mars with potential liquid water component registered by NASA’s Curiosity Rover... This is the most significant cloud capture that I have seen from all the Mars Videos I have watched/scanned!

Here is what NASA had to say:

"On April 8, 2021 NASA’s Curiosity Rover sent images of Cirrus Cloud Cover on Mars with possible presence of Ice and Liquid Water. Cirrus clouds are composed of ice crystals that originate from the freezing of supercooled water droplets in regions where air temperature is lower than -20 °C or -30 °C. Cirrus usually occur in fair weather. They are formed when it is high enough to be cold and freeze the water drops into ice. New study from two researchers at the Carl Sagan Institute and the NASA Virtual Planet Laboratory put the focus back on liquid water.

The model that the two came up with says that, if other conditions were met, cirrus clouds could have provided the necessary insulation for liquid water to flow. Clear Cirrus Clouds cover on Mars was spotted on March 31, 2021. Cirrus is known to raise the temperature (due the heat released as water vapor freezes) of the air beneath the main cloud layer, by an average of 10 °C (18 °F), When the individual filaments become so extensive as to be virtually indistinguishable, one from another, they form a sheet of high cloud called cirrostratus.

Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Curiosity Rover general page: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/home/

Enjoy my Brothers and Sisters!
Kerry
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