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Scientists explain giant daily 1,800 km cloud over Mars

Rank
Running
20h
Updated
3h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
5
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
5

Sözcü Turkey · Turkish 11 Oct, 06:17 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · Español (1) · Српски (1) · Українська (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 20 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Sözcü, 11 Oct, 06:17 UTC.
  2. Second country: Germany, with T-Online.
  3. Second region: Europe, with T-Online.
  4. Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

21 of 21 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

80%20%

  • Europe 4 outlets · 4 countries · 80%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%

First movers

  1. Sözcü 11 Oct, 06:17 UTC
  2. T-Online +3h
  3. Unian +4h 9m
  4. Blic +15h 22m
  5. ABC +17h 17m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Martian cloud phenomenon observed to be more unusual than expected, 7 to 9 Oct 2026, 5 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 4: Germany, Serbia, Spain, Ukraine. Middle East 1: Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
German, Spanish, Serbian, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Timeline
Earliest article Sözcü, 11 Oct 2026, 06:17 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 06:20 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 23:35 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Science & Health. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
1.67, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues Martian cloud phenomenon observed to be more unusual than expected. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
11 Oct 2026 240 3.25 4 4 4 4 4.7

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Started 11 Oct, 06:20 UTC · Updated 23:35 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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  • ABC Spain 11 Oct, 23:35 UTC
    Un científico español explica la 'nube imposible' de 1.800 kilómetros de Marte
  • Blic Serbia 11 Oct, 21:39 UTC
    Naučnici otkrili nešto NEVEROVATNO: Skoro 2.000 kilometara dugačak oblak svakoga dana nastane i nestane na Marsu i prkosi zakonima fizike
  • Unian Ukraine 11 Oct, 10:26 UTC
    На Марсі щодня з’являється гігантська хмара завдовжки 1600 км: вчені розкрили її таємницю
  • T-Online Germany 11 Oct, 09:17 UTC
    Mysteriöse Riesenwolke: Forscher lösen rätselhaftes Mars-Phänomen
  • Sözcü Turkey 11 Oct, 06:17 UTC
    1.800 kilometrelik bulutun gizemi çözüldü
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