Posted on Apr 12, 2021
Сirrus Clouds on Mars with potential liquid water component registered by NASA’s Curiosity Rover
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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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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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Edited 3 y ago
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That is very interesting, Kerry. Did they know of the clouds before this capture?
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Sgt (Join to see)
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I posted a video a few weeks ago, CWO3 Dennis M., when perseverance saw a small cirrus cloud, but not able to get any read on content... The Curiosity Rover captured a striking plethora of clouds and determines that there was water ice crystals in the clouds... I am sure more information will be forthcoming as time marches on...
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Sgt (Join to see) Cirrus Clouds? Ice Clouds? Nice, Good Sign. Any Further Out and that wouldn't be Water Ice.
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Now this is interesting. Where there are clouds, there is evaporation. Where there is evaporation, there is liquid surface water...
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Sgt (Join to see)
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It certainly is worthy of note, CPT Jack Durish, as we have not see this in any great detail before... Some water is evaporating into Mars' thin atmosphere and I agree there is liquid surface water somewhere on the Planet...
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SGT Mary G.
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Since Mars is "+70 degrees F. over the lower latitudes in the summer" maybe some of the polar ice turns to water vapor?
https://www.weather.gov/fsd/mars
https://www.weather.gov/fsd/mars
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