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

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 ...

Mars, also called the Red Planet, is one of the most familiar planets in our solar system – apart from Earth, of course! Famous for its distinctive colour, Mars has become a hot topic of ...

Nicolas Randazzo is proud of his unusual title: Mars 2020 Perseverance rover postdoctoral ... For example, atmospheric researchers might want to do a dust-devil survey and geochemists might ...

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 ...

It’s been long thought that Mars shines red due to the rusted iron minerals within the dust that covers the planet ... collected NASA’s Perseverance rover and when it returns to Earth ...

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 ...