Watch Clouds Drift Across Mars Sky in Eye-Popping NASA Rover Movies – CNET [CNET]

NASA’s Curiosity rover might be obsessed with rocks and geology at ground level, but it also takes time to see what’s happening in the Martian sky. This week, NASA released a pair of GIFs to show us back on Earth what the clouds look like drifting across Mars.

While the first GIF shows a view that includes the Martian landscape, a second movie shows the clouds moving directly above Curiosity. Together, they tell a story. “Scientists can calculate how fast the clouds are moving — and how high they are in the sky — by comparing the two perspectives,” NASA said.  

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