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June 10, 2016

NASA Mars Orbiters Reveal Seasonal Dust Storm Pattern
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2016
After decades of research to discern seasonal patterns in Martian dust storms from images showing the dust, but the clearest pattern appears to be captured by measuring the temperature of the Red Planet's atmosphere. For six recent Martian years, temperature records from NASA Mars orbiters reveal a pattern of three types of large regional dust storms occurring in sequence at about the same times each year during the southern hemisphere spring and summer. Each Martian year lasts about two Earth yea ... read more

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