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[โ€“] SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Here's the relevant abstract from the European Planetary Science Congress where this research was presented:

The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC) is an eye-catching and mysterious cloud occurring recurrently every morning during the perihelion season over the Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. It shows a peculiar elongated shape that in only 3 hours expands up to 1800 km from its origin point.


This provides an excellent explanation for this mysterious cloud and shows that homogeneous nucleation is possible and can have significant effects in the atmosphere of Mars, contrary to the widespread assumptions during the last twenty years of Mars exploration. The finding of supersaturations up to 10^8^ in the surveys performed by Fedorova et al. (2020; 2023) observationally supports that these extreme supersaturations can indeed happen in the atmosphere of Mars and homogeneous nucleation could be happening in other clouds.

[โ€“] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC)

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Water. It gets everywhere. Even here, on Mars - always popping up where you least expect it. And it comes super-saturated - 10,000,000 times super-saturated.

It's insidious.