The surface of Mars may be rocky and barren, but the clouds in the planet’s sky offer some insight into its past. NASA’s new Cloudspotting on Mars (CoM) project allows the public to be a part of the research as the agency examines what happens to Mars’s now very thin atmosphere.
The CoM project aims to enable ordinary people to help NASA understand what happened in the past of the Martian atmosphere. Geological evidence on Mars shows that the now barren planet had many rivers and large lakes in the past, leading scientists to think the planet’s atmosphere was much thicker in the past.
NASA currently estimates that Mars’ atmosphere is only one percent thicker than Earth’s, but scientists don’t know why. More than 16 years of data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched in 2005 with the CoM project, will be available to the public, and NASA hopes that with this project, the public will learn about Mars meteorology while helping non-NASA scientists to shed light on the causes of the evolution of the atmosphere. hopes.
If you are interested in the project, you can find all the details here…
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