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A new video rings in the rover's ninth year on Mars, letting viewers tour Curiosity's location on a Martian mountain.

Happy 9 years on Mars, NASA Curiosity! Spacecraft shares stunning photo of the Red Planet, in a panoramic view.

Most clouds on Mars hover no more than about 37 miles (60 kilometers) in the sky and are made of frozen water. But these shimmering clouds photographed by the Curiosity Rover sit at a higher altitude, where the air is much colder. This likely means that the higher clouds are made from frozen carbon dioxide. The Curiosity’s panoramic Mast Camera, or Mastcam, captured the clouds just after sunset, showing ice crystals that were able to catch the fading light and appeared to shine against the sky. “These twilight clouds, also known as “noctilucent” (Latin for “night shining”) clouds,...

NASA Curiosity Rover Sends Back Images of Iridescent Clouds on Mars: Cloud sightings are rare due to the thin, dry atmosphere.

The science team is studying the clouds, which arrived earlier and formed higher than expected, to learn more about the Red Planet. Cloudy days are rare in the thin, dry atmosphere of Mars. Clouds are typically found at the planet’s equator in the coldest time of year, when Mars is the farthest f