Mars Exploration Rover 2003. Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Multimedia. Weather Movie, Mars South Polar Region, March-April 2009 (Close) This movie shows the southern high-latitudes region of Mars from March 19 through April 14, 2009, a period when regional dust storms occurred along the retreating edge of carbon-dioxide frost in the seasonal south polar cap.
Compared with a full-hemisphere view, this view shows more details of where the dust clouds formed and how they moved around the planet. The movie combines hundreds of images from the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. In viewing the movie, it helps to understand some of the artifacts produced by the nature of MARCI images when seen in animation. It isn't easy to see the actual dust motion in the atmosphere in these images, owing to the apparent motion of these artifacts. In additon to tracking the storms, it is also interesting to watch how the seasonal cap shrinks from the beginning to the end of the animation. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. PIA15278_3rovers-lo_D2011_1215_D515_br.jpg (Image JPEG, 1024x537 pixels) MarsDrop.jpg (Image JPEG, 1280x720 pixels)
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