Warm spells on Mars may spark massive dust storms, scientists say, bringing us closer to predicting Martian weather. Today’s ...

Martian dust contains hazardous substances like silica, perchlorates, nanophase iron oxides and toxic metals, which can cause ...

Martian dust might look harmless from millions of miles away, but up close, it could pose a serious threat to your health. As ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a giant dust devil devouring a smaller storm swirling close behind it on the rim of Jezero Crater. Martian dust devils are spinning columns of warm air that ...

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A six-wheeled robot wandering the rugged terrain of Mars recently came across two small tornadoes whipping around the planet's surface. In a short video released Thursday by NASA, the two dust ...

Melissa joined Newsweek in 2023 from Global's LBC and had previously ... NASA has captured eerie new footage from Mars showing dust devils—miniature, fast-spinning whirlwinds—roaming the ...

But recent research suggests yet another worry: toxic Martian dust. Cameras aboard NASA’s Mars rovers like Perseverance and Curiosity have extensively documented the planet’s barren ...

Dust devils are "swirling, sometimes towering columns of air and dust," NASA said in a news release, and are common on Mars. They are formed by rising and rotating columns of warm air that are ...

Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant countermeasures, new research suggests. Substances such as silica, gypsum, ...

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The Martian dust devil caught in the act at the rim of Jezero Crater. NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/INTA-CSIC/Space Science Institute/ISAE-Supaero/University of ...