Within the mid- and upper-latitudes on Earth, throughout the early night hours, skinny and wispy clouds can generally be noticed within the higher ambiance.

These clouds have an ethereal really feel and include ice crystals in very excessive clouds on the fringe of house, usually about 75 to 85 km above the floor. The clouds are nonetheless in daylight whereas the bottom is darkening after the Solar units. Meteorologists name these noctilucent clouds, which basically interprets to “night-shining” clouds.

There isn’t any purpose why these clouds couldn’t additionally exist on Mars, which has a skinny ambiance. And about twenty years in the past, the European House Company’s Mars Categorical orbiter noticed noctilucent clouds on Mars and went on to make a systematic study.

Among the many many duties NASA’s Curiosity rover does on the floor of Mars since touchdown in 2012 is sometimes wanting up. A few weeks in the past, the rover’s Mastcam instrument captured a very gorgeous view of noctilucent clouds within the skies above. The clouds are principally white, however there may be an intriguing tinge of crimson as nicely within the time-lapse beneath, which consists of 16 minutes of observations.