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.
Sessions this explorer does not fit
Sessions this page does not fit are wanting Mars's real static surface relief, which is on the Mars Terrain 3D Explorer; wanting the billion-year mechanism behind why Mars's atmosphere is thin overall, which is on the Atmosphere Escape: Mars 3D Explorer; or wanting Earth's own, much rounder orbit ellipse with no dust-storm season, which is on the Earth Perihelion and Aphelion 3D Explorer. Walk through the controls in the step-by-step guide.
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