Captured in this image taken from orbit by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Mars Color Imager (MARCI) is a 37,000 square-kilometer (almost 14,300 square miles) dust storm that moved counter-clockwise through the Phoenix landing site on Oct 11, 2008, or Sol 135 of the mission. Viewing this image as if it were the face of a clock, Phoenix is a shown as a small white dot, located at about 10 AM. The storm, which had already passed over the landing site earlier in the day, is located at about 9:30 AM. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems
