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Jakarta – InSight Explorer and Curiosity robots belong NASA observed many times the clouds in the sky of the planet March. This thin blue cloud is located at an altitude of 30 to 60 km in the average atmosphere of Mars.
Apparently, this mysterious cloud has been bothering scientists for years since it was first spotted by Pathfinder robot explorers who landed on Mars in 1997. A team of researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has succeeded to discover the origin of the mysterious cloud.
In theory, like this, every day in the atmosphere of Mars, two to three tons of space rocks are destroyed. All these collisions left a lot of dust in the researchers.
This meteorite smoke then spreads in the Martian sky and can be enough to turn a little water vapor into the atmosphere into thin, fragile ice clouds.
To prove that this theory could work, the research team performed several computer simulations showing how particles were flying in the atmosphere of Mars.
Apparently, new clouds form when there are meteorites that produce enough dust in the sky. If there are no meteorites, no cloud appears.
The research team also discovered that the meteor smoke had a considerable effect on the climate of Mars. At any moment, the ice clouds on Mars increase the temperature of 18 degrees Celsius in the upper atmosphere of Mars. If this is true, then the dust of alien space objects can affect the climate on Mars, even on Earth.
"We are used to considering the Earth, Mars and other objects as truly independent planets that determine their own climate, but the climate is not independent of the surrounding solar system," said student Victoria Hartwick. graduated from the University of Colorado.
(vim / krs)
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