The elongated cloud of Arsia Mons, or AMEC, on Mars. Image: ESA / GCP / UPV / EHU Bilbao Like a clock, a strange cloud has returned far above the Martian surface. This long, thin cloud was seen on July 17 and 19 by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) attached …
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While greenhouse gases are heating the Earth’s surface, they are also causing rapid cooling well above us, at the edge of space. In fact, the atmosphere greater than about 90 kilometers (56 miles) above Antarctica is cooling at a rate 10 times faster than the average warming on the planet’s …
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