"Cloud" on Mars

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So many possibilities.

Exhaust from an alien underground base.

Exhaust from a giant alien creature living underground.

Exhaust from a break away civilizations underground base.

A volcano we've been lied to about so the break away civilization can colonize a habitable Mars!

Or, possibly a large water/ice pocket being heated by a still warm but ancient volcano (or the sun...booo!)

Have a little fun but even the more likely explanations are fascinating.

Lactating space nipple?

originally posted by: panoz77
Lactating space nipple?

Mars has a Gaia!

a reply to: FishBait

Mars is a living planet. It has weather. Seasons, etc
I have no doubt that life is there. Even if the only life is the planet itself.

a reply to: FishBait

Did we just time travel back to 2018 ? Anyway this water ice cloud is well known and observed by ESA it arises as the volcano slope interacts with the air flow, can be seen as the long white feature extending to the lower right of the volcano. The cloud, which measures 915 km in this view, also casts a shadow on the surface.

a reply to: FishBait

Here is one of the better places it is documented.

The forum is not very big on CT's though.

Arsia Mons Anomaly?



Mars approach by Viking 2

This may be the best pic of it.



Mars elongated cloud – 21 September

originally posted by: Spacespider
a reply to: FishBait

Did we just time travel back to 2018 ? Anyway this water ice cloud is well known and observed by ESA it arises as the volcano slope interacts with the air flow, can be seen as the long white feature extending to the lower right of the volcano. The cloud, which measures 915 km in this view, also casts a shadow on the surface.

I know but mine as well have some fun in ATS last hurrah.

Do you know many details on this? They don't seem 100% sure. It would seem to indicate there is some water/ice trapped in there?

a reply to: FishBait

I hear you, but NASA have already addressed this multiple times to clear things up.
There are better pictures out there that clearly show the clouds forms next to the volcano
There are things out there that can satisfy your mystery lust better.
Perhaps this exopolitics.blogs.com...

originally posted by: Spacespider
a reply to: FishBait

I hear you, but NASA have already addressed this multiple times to clear things up.
There are better pictures out there that clearly show the clouds forms next to the volcano
There are things out there that can satisfy your mystery lust better.
Perhaps this exopolitics.blogs.com...

I guess I'm not being clear, I get what you are saying but clouds come from water so what makes one this long off a large volcano? It's just water in the air that collects at that one point? This part isn't conspiracy stuff, I really don't know and am asking lol.

Why look at rational easily identifiable/provable explanations when we can just say...

TERRAFORMING HAS BEGUN!

a reply to: FishBait

It's just water in the air that collects at that one point?

Not exactly. A mountain causes "air" (the term doesn't really apply to the Martian atmosphere) to rise in one particular location. As the air rises it cools, as it cools the water vapor within it condenses into a cloud of ice crystals. Happens on Earth too. They are called orographic clouds.


www.rasc.ca...

a reply to: FishBait,

Clouds can also be frozen droplets of ice.

originally posted by: Spacespider
a reply to: FishBait

I hear you, but NASA have already addressed this multiple times to clear things up.
There are better pictures out there that clearly show the clouds forms next to the volcano
There are things out there that can satisfy your mystery lust better.
Perhaps this exopolitics.blogs.com...

Looks like some interesting reading, fact or fiction.

Thanks.

We saw this a couple years ago or maybe less I think, no volcano eruption then, guess not now

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: FishBait

It's just water in the air that collects at that one point?

Not exactly. A mountain causes "air" (the term doesn't really apply to the Martian atmosphere) to rise in one particular location. As the air rises it cools, as it cools the water vapor within it condenses into a cloud of ice crystals. Happens on Earth too. They are called orographic clouds.


www.rasc.ca...

Thanks! I had not heard of that type of cloud. If it's the same kind there used to be a big round one that would form over Mt Rainer and people always said it was a UFO haha.

a reply to: FishBait

Yes. Lenticular clouds are very awesome. And weird looking.
Good for soaring too. Martian sailplanes are going to be awesome.

(Wind noise, no engine. The beeping is a variometer.)

a reply to: tayton

No but I bet its warm a couple of thousand feet under the surface, with the pressure causing liquid water to form. In the vast caverns of the Martians.

a reply to: FishBait


Oh , it's just Mars Passing Gas . I Bet it Stinks too .

a reply to: Zanti Misfit

Methane gas... lol.

a reply to: LookingAtMars

Methane is odorless.