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 ...
And with these 'dust devils' collected into a single public catalog, this research is just the beginning. Besides pure science, it will be useful for planning future missions, for example, ...
Mars may seem like a silent, barren world, but its fine, abrasive dust tells a different story. From wiping out the ...
(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 ...
Map showing active dust devils during local spring and summer in Mars’s northern and southern hemispheres. The coloured dots indicate 1039 dust devils for which we have only location information, and ...
The Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) on board ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) captured these three dust devils tracking across the martian surface on 8 November 2021 ...
What can dust devils on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s weather and climate cycles? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists ...