Gargantuan Planet Encircling Dust Storm on Mars Affecting Rovers Operations NASA scientists are still holding out hope they will hear from the surprisingly long-lived Mars rover. It went into snooze mode earlier this month, thanks to a ‘planet-encircling’ dust storm that’s blocking beams from reaching the solar panels that recharge the rover’s batteries, reports NPR. NASA says the two-week-old storm doubled in size over the weekend and is now officially […] Weather WeatherBrains | June 30, 2018 0 Comments
Dust Storm from the Sahara Turns European Ski Resorts a ‘Mars-Like’ Orange Skiers and snowboarders were met with orange-tinted snow in Sochi, Russia, this weekend. The usually powdery white snow turned colors due to a sandstorm that blew across the Sahara Desert in North Africa in a phenomenon that happens only once or twice a decade. It’s no wonder that so many spectators described the snow as Mars-like because very little white […] Weather Steven Agar | March 26, 2018 0 Comments
Weather
