A Cloudy Day on Mars

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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter makes a daily, global map of the Red Planet's surface and weather. Here, thick water ice clouds cling to towering volcanic summits on June 5, 2012.

NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems/Bill Dunford

Copyright holder: Bill Dunford

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