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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Mars Global Surveyor _ Night Clouds Warm Red Planet

Posted by: AlexBlackwell Feb 6 2007, 07:26 PM

Since this was based on MGS MOLA data, I thought I'd put it in this forum:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070206_st_mars_clouds.html
By Ker Than
Staff Writer, Space.com
posted: 06 February 2007
06:12 am ET

This refers to the following paper published recently in Geophysical Research Letters:

Wilson, R. John; Neumann, Gregory A.; Smith, Michael D.
Diurnal variation and radiative influence of Martian water ice clouds
Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, No. 2, L02710
10.1029/2006GL027976
31 January 2007
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2006GL027976.shtml
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~rjw/abstracts/Wilson_cloud_abstract.pdf

Posted by: ngunn Feb 6 2007, 09:06 PM

An interesting one, thanks.
Nice picture that too! But the credit should definitely read NASA et al.