CLOUDS??? ON MARS??? HOGWASH I SAY
Well except maybe for this CYCLONE
Oh and THIS Cyclone from Viking...
Oh ummm almost forgot the Lee Wave Clouds... heavy fog that makes interesting patterns over craters...
Clouds on Mars HA! How silly...
Wave Cloud...
Image taken by the Viking spacecraft. Wave clouds usually occur at the lee of a large obstacle. They are often found at the edge of the polar cap, and
in the Tharsis and Lunae Planum regions of Mars.
Cloud Streets...
Image taken by the Viking spacecraft. The cloud patterns illustrated by this image exhibits a double periodicity. These types of clouds usually occur
close to the northern-polar cap and in the Tharsis and Syria Planum regions of Mars.
Streaky Clouds...
Image taken by the Viking spacecraft. Streaky clouds seem to be found most everywhere; however, they seem to be more concentrated in the highlands
southwest of Syrtis Major on Mars.
FOG
Image taken by the Viking spacecraft. Fog often appears in low-lying areas. It typically occurs in the southern hemisphere especially in the Argyre
and Hellas basins. It forms frequently in craters. Occasionally, it occurs in higher regions such as Sinus Sabaeus and Solis Planum.
Chasma Australe Fog...
Fog is a common occurrence in some areas of the retreating south polar seasonal frost cap. Fogs are commonly banked-up against steep slopes or found
inside defrosting craters. This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image captured mid-afternoon fog banked against the layered walls
of Chasma Australe, a trough in the south polar region of Mars. The frost-covered layers of Chasma Australe can be seen on the right side of this
image, the billowy fog is to the left. Sunlight illuminates this scene from the upper left. The fog, probably composed of water ice crystals, casts
shadows on the chasm wall. This picture is located near 83.5°S, 257.9°W, and covers an area 3 km (1.9 mi) wide.
Clouds in Noctis Labyrinthis...
Image taken by the Viking spacecraft. This image shows early morning fog in the Noctis Labyrinthis, at the westernmost end of Valles Marineris. This
fog, which is probably composed of water ice, is confined primarily to the low-lying troughs, but occasionally extends over the adjacent plateau. The
region shown is about 300 kilometers (186 miles) across.
Whispy Clouds Passing Overhead Opportunity Rover Sol 950...
Opportunity acquired images of clouds passing over Victoria Crater using the navigation camera on the rover's 950th sol (martian day) of exploration
on Mars (Sept. 25, 2006). Both rovers will continue searching the Martian sky for clouds during solar conjunction.
Left Navigation Camera Non-linearized Downsampled EDR acquired on Sol 950 of Opportunity's mission to Meridiani Planum at approximately 11:37:32 Mars
local solar time. Credit: NASA/JPL
Wispy Afternoon Clouds
Rover Opportunity Sol 956
This is the first image ever taken from the surface of Mars of an overcast sky. The "you are here" notation marks where Earth was situated in the
sky at the time the image was taken. Scientists had hoped to see Earth in this image, but the cloudy conditions prevented a clear viewing. Similar
images will be taken in the future with the hope of capturing a view of Earth. From Mars, Earth would appear as a tiny blue dot as a star would appear
to an earthbound observer. Pathfinder's imaging system will not be able to resolve Earth's moon. The image was taken about an hour and forty minutes
before sunrise by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) on Sol 16 at about ten degrees up from the eastern Martian horizon.
Source: NASA Mars Pathfinder
So let me make this PERFECTLY CLEAR... the skys on Mars are RED, DUSTY and THERE ARE NO CLOUDS
All the above images and sources can be accessed on Bluebird's page at Pegasus
"Weather on Mars"
Clouds on Mars...
Silly Lemmings
[edit on 10-4-2008 by zorgon]
That much huh? I got $750.00 for one weekend last time... but that wasn't the Russians... it was the county 
