NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured a Martian atmospheric phenomenon reminiscent of the mischievous, spinning Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes. The new visuals show a dust devil consuming a ...

Mars may look calm, but its atmosphere harbors storms of staggering scale. Roughly every 5½ Earth years, the planet ...

In the rover's latest video, the life of the slighter dust devil is abruptly cut short by a superior twister. But one ...

Opportunity Mission Patch As a planet-wide dust storm finally begins to settle ... the rover’s onboard heaters during the upcoming Martian winter. Opportunity is currently the longest running ...

"This is now a regional dust storm," Rich Zurek, NASA's chief Mars scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, said in a statement last week (November 21). "It has covered a fairly ...

Video footage captured by NASA's Perseverance rover shows a small "dust devil" merging with a much larger twister on the ...

Dust devils are common occurrences on the Martian surface that NASA has regularly observed since the 1970s with rovers on the ground and orbiters from above. But what makes Perseverance's most ...

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 ...

If Opportunity's energy reserves run too low to keep its aging electronic circuits warm, blisteringly cold Martian temperatures could disable them. But halfway around the planet, dust storm ...

A new study finds long-term exposure to Mars dust could harm astronaut health, causing chronic respiratory and thyroid problems. Martian dust contains toxic compounds like perchlorates ...

These samples, if returned by the late 2030s, could finally give scientists a chance to study Martian dust in a lab. This would provide critical data on its chemistry, behavior, and health effects.