2019
Year
2019
Scale
Regional
Duration
54 days
Peak Opacity
—
Window
2019-01-20 – 2019-03-15
The first regional dust storm following the 2018 global event offered scientists an opportunity to study the Martian atmosphere as it returned to a more typical dust regime. Curiosity measured the storm's opacity and documented its limited spatial extent, confirming it remained well below global-storm intensity. The event helped validate models of storm size prediction and post-global-event atmospheric recovery timescales.