NASA Curiosity rover photographed “dry ice clouds” on Mars

According to Australian National University cosmologist and astrophysicist Dr Brad Tucker, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity photographed “dry ice clouds” in the carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere of Mars. “We rarely see clouds on Mars, there is not a lot of water on the surface, most of it is contained below, and we have only seen it at the poles,” he told Sky News. “When Curiosity was about to capture these clouds… when they captured it, they realized that it actually formed earlier.” Dr. Tucker said, Mars, like Earth, has seasons, but the clouds captured by the rover “Before the season” than usual, the chemical composition of clouds is different from that on Earth. “Most of the atmosphere on Mars is carbon dioxide. These are actually carbon dioxide clouds, so it’s essentially dry ice clouds, which is really incredible.”