Starship Asterisk*

http://www.areavoices.com/astrobob/?archive=2010-02 wrote:

Early spring typically brings dust storms to northern polar Mars.
The choppy dust clouds of at least three dust storms are visible
in this mosaic of images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft in 2002.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems


A spectacular dust storm taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
rolls across the cracked and cratered surface of the planet (left).
At right are water ice clouds. Credit: NASA

APOD Robot wrote: Dust Storm on Mars

emc wrote:Looks like enough dust to choke a horse!

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  . Antony and Cleopatra > Act I, scene V
  
  CLEOPATRA: Be choked with such another emphasis!
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  . Timon of Athens > Act V, scene II
  
  Third Senator: Fearful scouring
  . Doth choke the air with dust:
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  . King Richard II > Act III, scene IV
  
  Servant: The whole land,
  . Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,
  . Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd,
  . Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs
  . Swarming with caterpillars?
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  . King Henry V > Act IV, scene III
  
  KING HENRY V: for there the sun shall greet them,
  . And draw their honours reeking up to heaven;
  . Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,
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  . Macbeth > Act I, scene II
  
  Sergeant: Doubtful it stood;
  . As two spent swimmers, that do cling together
  . And choke their Art.
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