At 14:48:34 UTC the Mastcam Right captured this nice view with rounded hillocks, against the background of a blue sky but partially covered by white clouds.
The wad-like appearance of this cloud is definitely different from the cirrus clouds that sometimes veil the Martian sky.
However, it remains a mystery to me how clouds can form in an atmosphere so dry that if we condense all the moisture in it to the ground, we would get a layer of liquid water about a hundredth of a millimeter thick!
The original image is a black and white encoding of the Bayer mask that has been converted to color through a process called “debayering” or “demosaicing”. In addition, the photo has undergone noise reduction due to Jpeg compression, white balance and a slight increase in microcontrast and color saturation in order to make the colors more similar to what the human eye would see.
Original image: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/02492/mcam/2492MR0132360070304998C00_DXXX.jpg
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