Before the Mars Global Surveyor was lost, it took captured some images of the nighttime cloud cover on Mars. These nighttime clouds have the effect of raising the surface temperature up to 35° F above areas of the surface that are not covered by clouds at night. Nighttime cloud cover on Mars is up to 5 times thicker than daytime cover, and flies very low against the planets surface, "like fog".

The clouds on Mars very similar to the cirrus clouds on earth, except they can be found as high as 62 miles above the planets surface.

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