Three Rice faculty members from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences have recently been honored with ...

Every morning during spring and summer in Mars’s southern hemisphere, a long white cloud appears downwind of the giant volcano Arsia Mons. The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, or AMEC, can stretch up to 1, ...

Mars Express can capture large stretches of the Martian surface at high resolution. Alongside ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ...

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A new study of the oddest cloud on Mars, which reappears every year at the Arsia Mons volcano, says that "exotic physics" is ...

The ice cloud on Mars, known as the Elongated Cloud of Arsia Mons, is now less enigmatic thanks to recent research. A team of ...

Space scientists have said that Mars’s “oddest cloud” may be even odder than they thought. Researchers using the European ...

Learn more about the AMEC, a strange, recurring cloud on Mars that has long baffled scientists, until now.

The cloud is 1,800 km long, nearly twice the length of the UK, and appears every spring and summer in Mars' southern ...

Every morning in the dusty season, a streak of ice up to 1,800 km long trails west of the Arsia Mons volcano. A new model can ...

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says Episode 55 high-fountain timing can no longer be predicted after a shallow magma ...