Curiosity, a set of NASA 's robotic "eyes" on the Red Planet, recorded 16 minutes of so-called noctilucent clouds flying ...

They can look similar to bubbles in soap or oil over water that give a rainbow appearance. They also have a similar appearance to the rainbow observed on a mother-of-pearl gemstone. Sign up for our ...

However, when the stratosphere reaches these lower temperatures, widely spaced water molecules coalesce into tiny ice crystals, forming rainbow clouds. PSCs form over some hilly mountains.

Martian clouds are almost always made of dry ice, or frozen carbon dioxide. 95% of the planet's atmosphere is CO2.

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured stunning images of Martian twilight clouds, revealing iridescent dry ice formations on Mars.

The clouds, composed of carbon dioxide ice crystals, glow in shades of red, green, and pearlescent hues in the martian ...

It’s not the aliens, it isn’t the end of days, what you’re looking at is an ice pillar, also known as a light pillar.

Red-and-green-tinted clouds drift through the Martian sky in a new set of images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured breathtaking images of red and green-tinted clouds drifting across the Martian sky. These ...

A rover got a new view of some peculiar extraterrestrial clouds, flecked in rainbow colors and moving ... Mars' are made of dry ice — a type of cloud that doesn't exist in Earth's atmosphere ...