As the Curiosity rover explores its way around Mars, it isn’t only looking ... first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact,” said researcher ...

Iridescent clouds were first seen on Mars by NASA’s Pathfinder mission ... he actually thought it was a mistake — some kind of color artifact appearing in the images. Now scientists can ...

For the fourth year in a row, iridescent clouds of frozen CO2 are lighting the Martian sky. The clouds appear in the same place, at the same time of year.

The images, which were captured on Jan. 17 by one of two cameras onboard Curiosity, feature "noctilucent" or twilight clouds — clouds captured wafting so high up in the Mars sky that they are ...

A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

the Curiosity rover discovered and shared surprising images in which colorful clouds were seen floating over Mars, something that aroused many questions among the scientific community and that the ...

New ultraviolet images beamed from Mars by NASA's MAVEN spacecraft show huge swaths of clouds forming above the red planet in incredible new detail. The imagery also reveals a never-before ...

(Photo/NASA/JPL) At the surface, Mars is a desolate, barren world with a rocky landscape, massive dust storms and extreme temperature swings. However, a rover recently captured a splash of color in ...

For example, it’s a dusty red color. But, new research from the European Space Agency is challenging humanity’s understanding of why Mars is called the Red Planet. “Mars is still the Red Planet.