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 ...

Scientists now have proof that Mars' dusty storms can generate mini lightning, putting to rest decades of speculation. Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the ...

Many videos have gone viral across the internet, showing dust devils spinning up out of nowhere and causing havoc to nearby people and property. One such video was submitted to KWTX out of Nolanville, ...

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(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 ...

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 ...