SPACE: A Cloudy Day on Mars
It might look like a postcard from Arizona, but this snapshot shows something much more exotic: the planet Mars, as seen by NASA’s Curiosity rover. The image is a combination … Read more
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SPACE: Clouds on Mars?
Weather models are a daily staple of life on Earth, but they can go interplanetary as well, sometimes with a boost from Earth’s most sophisticated computers. That sort of work … Read more
SCIENCE: Climate Change Could Destroy Stratocumulus Clouds, Which Would Scorch the Planet
If humanity pumps enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, one of Earth’s most important types of cloud could go extinct. And if the stratocumulus clouds — those puffy, low rolls … Read more
SPACE: NASA Wants to Send Humans to Live in the Clouds on Venus
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at … Read more