"Diamond Dust" Snow Falls Nightly on Mars
Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 18:14
in Astronomy & Space
Ice crystals drifting from Martian clouds resemble the glittering precipitation that falls in Earth's Arctic regions during winter, new data show.
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