Mars Pathfinder: Clouds on Mars

This animation shows three images taken on the morning of Sol 16. Between frames, you can see the clouds moving across the screen from the northeast. The clouds are thought to be about 10 miles high and moving in 15 mile per hour winds.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, developed and manages the Mars Pathfinder mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL is an operating division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) was developed by the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory under contract to JPL. Peter Smith is the Principal Investigator.