That rover has stayed close to one spot for the last nine months, where among other observations, it spotted the first water -
ice clouds identified from the surface of Mars.
Not exact matches
Genetic techniques had advanced considerably in the last two decades, so that it was possible to
identify even a few
ice nucleators like syringae out of thousands of microbes that might inhabit a
cloud.
But that year she teamed up with Paul DeMott, a
cloud physicist from Colorado State University, to see if they could use the machine to
identify the particles that form
ice in
clouds.
This strategy is used to
identify ice bands and to constrain which
ices form early during
cloud formation, which form later in the prestellar core and which require protostellar heat and / or UV radiation to form.
Chemical analyses of the
cloud droplets,
ice crystals, and precipitation are also frequently performed in order to
identify natural and man - made pollutants within the different forms of water.