THE fiercest dust storm for several decades is raging on the Red Planet,
images from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft and the Hubble Space
Telescope have revealed. Scientists say that airborne soil has engulfed the
entire planet for the past three months.
They hope the new images will help them understand more about what triggers
the wild Martian storms, as well as climate change on Mars. “This is an
opportunity of a lifetime,” says Hubble observer James Bell of Cornell
University in Ithaca, New York.
