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Dust Storms on Mars
Press Conference - October 11, 2001
A pair of eagle-eyed NASA spacecraft -- Mars Global Surveyor and Hubble Space Telescope -- are giving amazed astronomers a ringside seat to the biggest global dust storm seen on Mars in several decades. The Martian dust storm, larger by far than any seen on Earth, has raised a cloud of dust that has engulfed the entire planet for the past three months.


Mars Dust Storms Press Conference
Oct. 11, 2001

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