DON’T MISS: NASA's Curiosity rover spots a towering dust devil on Mars A global dust storm envelops Mars in June/July 2001. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A desolate rock adorned by rusty red dust ...

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

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The Perseverance rover has captured footage of a rare phenomenon on the surface of Mars. Two Martian dust devils were observed interacting, providing an unprecedented view of the Red Planet's ...

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 ...

A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming a smaller one in a short video made of images taken by a navigation camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. These swirling, sometimes towering columns ...

Curiosity's view of Gale Crater during the 2018 global dust storm on Mars showing a decrease in visibility from 8 June 2018 (Sol 2075) to 18 June 2018 (Sol 2085). (CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/York ...

4️⃣ Dangerous dust: Toxic particles on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts, new research suggests. Substances such as silica and gypsum could ...

For the first time on a global ... dust storms. The biggest challenge? Identifying images with and without clouds among hundreds of thousands of photos—since clouds are rare and scattered on Mars.

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, ...

This dust devil photographed by Perseverance on Aug. 30, 2023 was the same width as the larger twister in the new video and was estimated to be around 1.2 miles tall. (Image credit: NASA/JPL ...