When to Use Mars Dust Storm Seasons 3D Explorer
Open the Mars Dust Storm Seasons 3D Explorer when you want to see WHEN and WHY Mars gets global dust storms - the real Ls 180-340 season window, the 2018 storm that ended NASA's Opportunity rover, and how the eccentric orbit drives the season - not just what Mars's surface or thin atmosphere looks like on its own.
Sessions this explorer fits
Students asking why a single dust storm could end a working Mars rover, teachers walking through NASA/JPL's 2018 mission updates, and readers who want to connect an eccentric orbit to a real seasonal weather event by scrubbing through a Mars year instead of reading a mission report first all get a direct answer here.
When a Mars dust-storm season view is the wrong page
The Ls 180-340 storm window and the 2018 global event that ended Opportunity are seasonal weather facts, so skip this explorer if your real question is not about Mars weather at all. Skip this dust-storm season view if what you actually need is Mars's fixed surface relief - the canyons, craters, and Olympus Mons profile that do not change with the season - because that terrain lives on the Mars Terrain 3D Explorer. If your question is instead why Mars has such a thin atmosphere to begin with, over billions of years, that slow escape story is on the Atmosphere Escape: Mars 3D Explorer, not here. And if you only want to compare orbital ellipses - Earth's near-circular path has no comparable dust-storm season - start with the Earth Perihelion and Aphelion 3D Explorer. For a control-by-control walkthrough of scrubbing the Ls season window on this page, follow the step-by-step guide.
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