Dust devils on Mars could be crackling with electric currents, according to a new study — and scientists are a little concerned about this because a buildup of such charge could harm rovers rolling ...

Mars may look quiet from a distance, but up close it is anything but ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrical discharges turn out to be quite common inside Martian dust devils. (Credit: NASA/JPL) New evidence from NASA, published ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across the surface of ...

(CNN) — Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic ...

Saturday afternoon, the Mt. Juliet League Inc. out of Tennessee posted a wild video of a dust devil to its Facebook page. No, the Tazmanian Devil from Looney Tunes has no role in this. Sorry for the ...

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Scientists leveraged what was previously considered "digital noise"—color offsets caused by moving objects in images from ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter—to catalog 1,039 martian dust ...

Mars may look calm and barren from afar, but beneath its quiet, dusty red surface lies a surprisingly dynamic atmosphere. Despite having an atmosphere less than 1% as dense as Earth's, the winds on ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – There may not have been a cloud in the sky Thursday, but that doesn’t stop dust devils from forming. Accord to the National Weather Service, a dust devil is, “a small, ...