NASA’s Opportunity Rover survived years on Mars, but a massive dust storm may have finally ended its mission. With solar panels covered in dust and communication lost, scientists wait to see if the ...

Just how scientifically accurate is Ridley Scott's adaptation of The Martian? As it turns out, it's pretty darn accurate!

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests.

The Martian atmosphere is a complex and dynamic system, heavily influenced by dust storms and other aeolian processes. Understanding these phenomena is crucial for both scientific exploration and ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Perseverance has been exploring the surface of Mars for several months now ...

When NASA sent its InSight lander to Mars in 2018 it knew it may have to land during a dust storm. Its heat shield was thick to withstand being “sandblasted” by suspended dust and it had a ...

Mars has barely any atmosphere — about 1% of the density of the cozy atmospheric blanket around Earth. That's hardly enough to protect the surface from dangerous space radiation. - Dust storms ...

“The convention for counting years in the Martian calendar started in 1955, with the first year coinciding with a major storm named ‘the great dust storm of 1956,’” the European Space ...

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN ... That proximity can "cause billowing dust storms to blanket the surface." This year's solar maximum coincides with the planet's dust ...