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1,000-mile-long cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day obeys 'exotic physics' never seen on Earth


New simulations suggest that the perplexing Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC) repeatedly emerges in the Red Planet's skies thanks to a never-before-seen meteorological process.

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