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, ...

Saturday afternoon, the Mt. Juliet League Inc. out of Tennessee posted a wild video of a dust devil to its Facebook page. The video is incredible. And - at least in this part of the country - these ...

On Earth, dust devils are a curiosity. On Mars, they’re a commonplace. Lori Fenton, a planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, has a serious interest in these whirling dustups, as they are a major ...

Mars may look calm, but new research reveals it’s a world of fierce winds and swirling dust devils racing at hurricane-like speeds. Using deep learning on thousands of satellite images from European ...

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 red dust, ...

For two decades, images from European spacecraft have captured bits of unremarkable digital noise as they photograph Mars. Now, scientists have turned that noise into a breakthrough, cataloging 1,039 ...

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 ...

It confirms that although dust devils are found all over Mars, even on its towering volcanoes, lots are swept up from certain "source regions." For example, many were clustered in Amazonis Planitia ...