A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentA cloud about eleven hundred miles long forms over the Martian volcano Arsia Mons, lasts a couple of hours, and a new model says it needs physics nobody has seen in nature.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWhat kind of physics?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentWater vapor freezing straight into ice with no dust to start it.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe study in Nature Geoscience says it happens about two hundred degrees Fahrenheit colder than anyone has measured a key property of water.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo how close did the model get?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIts cloud is thirty to fifty percent narrower than the real one, and it starts about an hour and a half late. The lead author still calls it a big success.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAn hour and a half late. On Mars, the cloud only lasts a couple of hours. That's most of the show.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentVerdict: interesting science, generous grading.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLate and too narrow? In my group chat that's just me, and I still get invited.