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 ...
Dust on Mars has a new voice. What once looked like silent red storms now crackles with tiny sparks, as if the planet were whispering with electricity right under your feet. For the first time, ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges, which sound ...
Mars is a very dry planet with very little water in its atmosphere and hardly any clouds, so you might not expect it to have ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA’s Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical ...
Mars is cold, parched, and extremely dusty. Powerful gusts of wind kick up literal tons of reddish dust that often takes the form of whorls known as dust devils. These winds also shroud the planet in ...