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Scientists unravel mystery of 1,100-mile-long cloud forming above Martian volcanoes It s similar to how these clouds form on Earth only on a massive scale. The cloud is about 1,118 miles (1,800 kilometers) long and 93 miles (150 km) across. Credit: ESA. Every year around Mars’ southern solstice, a strange elongated ice cloud forms over the red planet’s surface. The exact nature of this peculiar meteorological phenomenon has been elusive until recently. Scientists affiliated with the European Space Agency (ESA) just released a stunning photo of the giant 1,100-mile-long (1,800 km) cloud captured by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on the Mars Express spacecraft. In doing so, they’ve also figured out how it forms.

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