New patterns in Mars clouds revealed by volunteers

The first journal article about clouds identified by participants of the Cloudspotting on Mars project has been accepted for publication and is now available online. The article, "The Cloudspotting on Mars citizen science project: Seasonal and spatial cloud distributions observed by the Mars Climate Sounder" will appear in a special issue of Icarus titled "MRO: 16 Years at Mars." MRO is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Mars Climate Sounder is an instrument on MRO.