An exciting and rare video published for the first time depicting how clouds move on the surface of Mars... Video

Clouds do not run on Mars, as clouds on Earth, but rather appear to be "dripping" and rushing, according to what appeared in the first video broadcast by NASA two days ago, and produced from what was photographed by the lenses of the Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet 6 years ago.

The clouds of Mars appear faint and transparent in the video, because they are not from molecules of water and ice, but rather from “carbon dioxide ice, most likely, because it is very cold,” according to what was published by “Al Arabiya.net”, while the American website CNET published, on “NASA” that Filming it, which was done in 8-frames movie, was not easy, and forced to take several photos to get a clear and static background, so that anything else moving within the image, such as clouds and shadows, became visible after subtracting the static background from each image.

As for the height of the Martian clouds from its desert-style surface, it is not lowered between 2 to 6 kilometers, as the average height of the Earth’s clouds, but rather up to 80 kilometers, so photographing them requires special techniques, which was provided by several lenses in “Curiosity” that also photographed the passage of its shadows on the surface of the earth. The planet, from which its speed and the nature of its "drift" in the atmosphere were known. Several vehicles have photographed Mars' clouds in the past, but the images were fixed, and did not lead to clear scientific results.

After taking pictures, NASA scientists assume that the ice cloud cover of Mars "may have supported the rivers and lakes in it", because the presence of ice clouds at high altitudes could keep the planet warm enough for rivers and lakes, a conclusion also reached by a study published in the periodical. PNAS University of Chicago planetary scientist Edwin Kite is known as an assistant professor of geophysics and an expert on otherworldly climates.

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