And with these 'dust devils' collected into a single public catalog, this research is just the beginning. Besides pure science, it will be useful for planning future missions, for example, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded sounds from Mars dust devils and revealed tiny electric sparks shaping the planet’s ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Dust devils on Mars could be crackling with electric currents, according ...

Mars has long been pictured as a cold, quiet desert, its famous dust storms more cinematic backdrop than active player in the planet’s story. New measurements are overturning that image, revealing ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In a rare occurrence, HiRISE captured an image of a live dust devil as it etched its track into ...

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 red dust, ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (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 ...

Map showing active dust devils during local spring and summer in Mars’s northern and southern hemispheres. The coloured dots indicate 1039 dust devils for which we have only location information, and ...

Boise State University physics professor Brian Jackson brought a team of scientists to the Alvord Desert in southeast Oregon in June 2024 to study dust devils — small whirling cyclones of dust that ...

An Iowa man captured video this week of a large dust devil that whipped up in the middle of Gowrie. KCCI Chief Meteorologist Jason Sydejko called the dust devil "incredibly defined," as it spun for ...