NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured the first direct recordings of electric sparks crackling inside Martian dust devils, turning decades of theoretical predictions into measured reality. The ...

NASA just released striking new video and audio that reveal the sounds of dust storms on Mars crackling with tiny lightning-like sparks. The footage, which NASA released on Dec. 3, was captured by the ...

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 ...

It confirms that although dust devils are found all over Mars, even on its towering volcanoes, lots are swept up from certain "source regions." For example, many were clustered in Amazonis Planitia ...

For decades, we’ve seen dust devils from Mars rovers and orbiters. New research published on October 8, 2025, takes this a big step further. It’s the first study to track the motion of so many of ...

Dust devils often pop up here on Earth when a column of wind whips up debris in deserts, but this frenzied weather spectacle also happens on Mars too. Although Martian dust devils may look somewhat ...