Footage of NASA's Perseverance rover capturing a dust devil on Mars traveling at 12 miles per hour (17 kph) Credit: Space.com ...

A study suggests Mars takes its red hue from a type of mineral that forms in cool water, which could reveal insights about ...

routinely cleaned by Mars’ wind and dust devil events, thus allowing greater power generation on the rover than would otherwise be possible if total accumulation built up over time without these ...

This mode is sufficient to protect the rover during the occasional dust storms that kick up on Mars, but this is no regular dust storm. NASA knows that Opportunity would have put itself into ...

Mars researchers from the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson visited Eldorado Valley outside Las Vegas in the summer of 2009 to learn more about dust devils, which also occur on Mars.

However, even though dust covers everything on Mars, it’s difficult to study and presents an enigma, said Briony Horgan, co-investigator on the Perseverance rover mission and professor of ...

Curiosity, a car-sized robotic rover featured in Destination: Mars, landed on the red planet ... the speed of hurricane force winds on Earth. Dust devils happen frequently when the sun warms ...