NASA's InSight lander on Mars has made incredible strides in studying the Red Planet, and one of its most fascinating areas of research involves the mysterious phenomenon known as "dust devils.
it would make sense for the Red Planet to have suffered from other natural occurrences beyond just Martian dust devils. Because many believe that water once covered the surface of Mars ...
Such dust devils leave zigzags across the red planet's surface, which spacecraft can see from Mars orbit. Pike, Banfield, and other InSight team members think some of the very low-frequency ...
Mars spacecraft teamed up with an AI model to find a new impact crater on on the Martian surface, changing our understanding of the interior.
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.
The craft had operated a continuous Martian weather service, recording huge dust storms, the shadows of tornado-like dust devils ... virtual flying tour over Mars's surface.
The surface of Mars here looks just like the Mojave desert ... less than half the speed of hurricane force winds on Earth. Dust devils happen frequently when the sun warms the ice-cold ground.
Monstrous dust storms often ravage Mars, engulfing the Red Planet for months. Now, a new study suggests these global storms may be related to a peculiar energy imbalance recently discovered across the ...