44K views · 877 reactions | • Curiosity Rover Captures Colorful Clouds Drifting Over Mars • NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these drifting noctilucent, or twilight, clouds in a 16-minute recording on Jan. 17. (This looping clip has been speeded up about 480 times.) The white plumes falling out of the clouds are carbon dioxide ice that would evaporate closer to the Martian surface. •• Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/SSI | Astronomy Nation | Facebook

287K views · 298 reactions | 5 striking facts about Mars that will make you a fan of the red planet. | Insider Science | Facebook