Sentences with phrase «global dust storm»
Besides searching for water, geologists will use Webb to study the formation and evolution of global dust storms and cloud systems over dormant volcanoes, and search for traces of chemical changes in the atmosphere.
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«In addition, when Mars is closest to the sun, the atmosphere becomes turbulent, resulting in global dust storms and other activity.
On Mars the atmosphere gets so hot, global dust storms result.
For example, Mars experiences global dust storms in addition to its annual cycles of atmospheric freeze - out at the poles.
Formed after eons of meteorite impacts, these tiny grains create Mars» famous dune fields and are blown high into the atmosphere, sometimes creating global dust storms.
«Mars has global dust storms that can obscure the entire surface of the planet,» he says, which puts the storm in this photo into perspective.
Because of the available launch window, the spacecraft are arriving at Mars in the middle of its global dust storm season.
Unlike the Moon, however, Mars is a dynamic world that can be engulfed from pole to pole in a global dust storm.
In today's Hubble 25th Discoveries story, find out what Hubble has learned through long - term monitoring of both global dust storms and local weather over the last 25 years.
Of special interest would be such observations of the development of a global dust storm.