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, ...
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Tiny electrical discharges in martian dust leave strange fingerprints on its surface
Scientists have known that Mars is rich in strange chemicals, especially chlorine-based compounds found by orbiters, rovers, ...
A dust devil was spotted forming on an Oklahoma interstate just west of El Reno, footage posted on Monday, September 8 showed. Amelia Urquhart filmed the footage as she traveled on Interstate 40.
Many videos have gone viral across the internet, showing dust devils spinning up out of nowhere and causing havoc to nearby people and property. One such video was submitted to KWTX out of Nolanville, ...
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 ...
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 ...
(CNN) — 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 ...
Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...
BRIDGETON, Mo. — A 5 On Your Side viewer caught a giant dust devil on video as it spun through a north St. Louis County work site on Thursday. The small twister whipped dust and rock hundreds of feet ...
What can dust devils on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s weather and climate cycles? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists ...
Map showing active dust devils during local spring and summer in Mars’s northern and southern hemispheres. The coloured dots indicate 1039 dust devils for which we have only location information, and ...
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