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, ...
This large dust devil in the center consumed a smaller nearby dust devil on Mars in January. Future human visitors to Mars will have to deal with an unfriendly planet. It’s dusty. It’s windy.
By tracking how fast the dust devils moved, the researchers found wind speeds of up to 44 m/s, or 158 km/h. This is faster than we've ever measured with rovers on the ground—though it's worth noting ...
Something about this time of year on Mars is reminiscent of 1939's The Wizard of Oz. Maybe it's the ruddiness of the planet that gives off its own natural sepia tone like we see in Victor Fleming's ...
NASA's Perseverance rover may have recorded evidence of a triboelectric discharge caused by a dust devil on Mars, according to a team who presented those findings at the 2025 Lunar and Planetary ...
What causes dust devils & why are scientists studying them to prepare for future exploration on Mars Physics Prof Brian Jackson and a team of planetary scientists are digging into the science of ...
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 red dust, ...
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 devils ...
Mars may look calm, but new research reveals it’s a world of fierce winds and swirling dust devils racing at hurricane-like speeds. Using deep learning on thousands of satellite images from European ...