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September 13, 2012

Today on Mars: it’s snowing dry ice at the Martian South Pole

by Laura Domela

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Curiosity may be roving the Martian frontier to find out just how similar the Red Planet is to Earth, but meanwhile NASA’s other Martian explorers are turning up evidence of just how different our neighboring planet can be. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned data suggesting that it snows on Mars just like it snows on Earth, with one key difference: On Mars, it snows dry ice.
via Popular Science

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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech 

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