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 ...

But they can still be trouble. Mars seen before, left, and during, right, a global dust storm in 2001. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS In 2018, for example, a global dust storm buried the solar panels on NASA’s ...

Another one bites the dust. NASA's Perseverance rover captured a herd of dust devils dancing across Mars. The biggest dust devil made a snack out of a smaller twister.

Mars has long been considered ... Earth years), these storms expand into global dust storms that envelop the entire planet and can be observed from Earth. These storms are already known to be a ...

On Earth, they’re typically harmless and short-lived—but on Mars, they can grow to enormous sizes due to the planet’s thin atmosphere, sometimes stretching several miles into the sky. These whirlwinds ...

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 ...

Combined with the increased radiation during deep space travel and the body changes caused by low gravity, Mars dust could create a perfect storm of health problems. As NASA’s Artemis program works to ...

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 ...

The dust present on Mars contains harmful substances such as silica, gypsum, iron oxides, and perchlorates, and it could pose life-threatening risks to astronauts, according to a new study.

A dust storm spreads over the surface of Mars in 2018. (Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin) The new research was led by Justin L. Wang, a Doctor of Medicine at USC, along with several of his colleagues from ...

Scientists say they have spotted a dust devil "eating" another on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured the otherworldly scene of several Red Planet mini-twisters spinning on the rim of Jezero ...