Mars and Venus are Earth's neighbours in the Solar System and they both have a CO2 atmosphere, but their climates are quite different. Mars has a thin and cold atmosphere hosting CO2 and H2O ice clouds and mineral dust lofted from the surface. Venus is covered in thick cloud layers composed mostly of sulphuric acid solution droplets. I will briefly introduce the climates and clouds on these two planets, and then discuss what we know about the formation mechanisms and evolution of their clouds. I will try to put the subject in a context of comparative climatology by looking for similarities with Earth's clouds and aerosols.

This event is part of the eventgroup Meteorology Colloquium Karlsruhe

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Speaker
Dr. Anni Maeaettaenen

CNRS Guyancourt
Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales

Organizer
Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Hermann von Helmholtz Platz 1
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Tel: 0721-608-0
Mail: sekretariat ∂does-not-exist.imk-asf kit edu

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Interested / Everyone