Mars' clouds are strangely Earth-like, despite wildly different atmospheres

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Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics. Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.’s Open University. Follow him on Twitter @sciencef1rst.

."It is quite unexpected then, that through tracking the chaotic movement of dust storms, parallels can be drawn with the processes that occur in Earth's moist, hot and decidedly very un-Mars-like tropical regions."For the research, the scientists looked at two dust storms that happened near the Martian north pole in the spring of 2019.

The images also reveal that dust storms on Mars are composed of regularly spaced, smaller cloud cells that are arranged like pebbles, forming a garden-path-like texture that is also seen in clouds over Earth. A comparison of the cloud patterns of Mars at the Martian north pole in May 2019 and those of our own planet .

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