The best time to view iridescent clouds is when the sun is low on the horizon, typically within two hours of sunrise or ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact," Mark Lemmon, an atmospheric scientist at the Space Science Institute in ...

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

In January 2023, NASA's Curiosity rover captured images of noctilucent clouds during a Martian sunset, including a rare category of iridescent bright noctilucent clouds that appear feather-shaped ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023, the 3,724th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Studying the colors in iridescent ...

Videos from the rover’s MastCam show the clouds changing colors as the night fell. “I’ll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color ...

The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus Earth’s roughly 93 million miles), but it also has to do with the planet’s ...

At summertime, these iridescent clouds shimmer at dusk and dawn near Earth's North and South Poles. Astronaut Matthew Dominick shared a spectacular photo he took on the Fourth of July from the ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." What do clouds on Mars look like? Well, a new video stitched together from ...

What do clouds on Mars look like? Well, a new video stitched together from images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover offers a glimpse. In this video, delicate red-and-green-tinted clouds are seen ...