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Credit & Copyright: J. Bell (ASU),
M. Wolff
(Space Science Inst.),
Hubble Heritage Team (STScI /
AURA),
NASA
Explanation:
What's happened to Mars?
In 2001, Mars underwent a tremendous
planet-wide
dust storm -- one of the largest ever recorded from Earth.
To show the extent, these two
Hubble Space Telescope
storm watch
images from late June and
early September (2001) offer dramatically contrasting views
of the martian surface.
At left, the onset of smaller "seed" storms can be seen near
the Hellas basin
(lower right edge of Mars) and the
northern polar cap.
A similar surface view at right, taken over two months later,
shows the fully developed extent of the
obscuring global storm.
Although this storm eventually waned, in recent days a
new
large dust storm has been taking hold of the
red planet.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: Mars
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See also:
- APOD: 2025 April 13 Á An Unusual Hole in Mars
- APOD: 2025 March 23 Á Ancient Ogunquit Beach on Mars
- SuperCam Target on Maaz
- Full Moon, Full Mars
- APOD: 2025 January 15 Á Wolf Moon Engulfs Mars
- APOD: 2024 December 3 Á Ice Clouds over a Red Planet
- APOD: 2024 November 10 Á Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars