NASA Mars Orbiter Tracks Back-to-Back Regional Storms

NASA Mars Orbiter Tracks Back-to-Back Regional Storms Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2017 - A regional dust storm currently swelling on Mars follows unusually closely on one that blossomed less than two weeks earlier and is now dissipating, as seen in daily global weather monitoring by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Images from the orbiter's wide-angle Mars Color Imager (MARCI) show each storm growing in the Acidalia area of northern Mars, then blowing southward and explodin ... more

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