NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Autumn Clouds on Mars

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has acquired an image of high-altitude twilight clouds above Gale Crater, marking the start of autumn on Mars. The image was taken on Sol 5037, or Martian day 5,037, using the rover's Right Navigation Camera. The clouds are characteristic of the sky above Gale Crater at this time of year. The new Martian year began at the start of the northern hemisphere spring, and the rover is now in autumn, with the return of high-altitude twilight clouds. The rover has been busy with drill activities and remote-sensing experiments, including a GCMS experiment and contact science of the drill tailings.