Thursday, March 19, 2015

Mysterious, never-before-seen dust cloud covers Mars

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Scientists using NASA's Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft discovered a mysterious cloud of dust hundreds of miles above the planet's surface — and no explanation for how it got there.


The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft was on the hunt for remnants of a comet that blitzed Mars in October when it detected the high-altitude dust, scientists said at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston on Wednesday.



"We saw something that we were not expecting," said MAVEN scientist Laila Andersson, with the University of Colorado in Boulder. Read more...


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