Fog: Quick Facts

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Nov. 11, 2026

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Thick fog disrupts travel with further weather warning issued • Nov. 8, 2026, 11:12 AM ET (BBC)

Patches of morning fog with sunshine later in the day • Nov. 1, 2026, 1:41 AM ET (Rochester Post Bulletin)

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Clouds on Mars. The rippled clouds (top) are high in Mars's atmosphere and consist mainly of water crystals with lesser amounts of frozen carbon dioxide. Fog is faintly visible in the lower half of the picture. This false-colour picture is a composite of images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft on June 4, 1998.

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