Mars’ atmosphere is much thinner than Earth’s, so dust storms on the Red Planet can’t generate much force. But they can still be trouble. In 2018, for example, a global dust storm buried the solar ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

Dust storms on Mars could one day pose dangers to human astronauts, damaging equipment and burying solar panels. New research gets closer to predicting when extreme weather might erupt on the Red ...

Dust storms, she noted, pose real risks for Mars exploration. The Warm-Up Before the Storm Pieris and her colleagues studied weather data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has ...

New images reveal that the strange Martian stripes on the slopes are formed by avalanches of dry dust, not liquid water.

Scientists from NIT Rourkela and Sun Yat-sen University analyze dust storms and water ice clouds on Mars using over 20 years of data. By understanding Martian weather, they aim to protect spacecraft, ...

Image of a planetary dust storm on Mars in 2018 captured by the Mars Express orbiter. (Credit: ESA/DLR/FU BERLIN/CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) For context, another wind features on Mars are dust devils, which are ...

Mars is known as the “Red Planet,” but it’s even more crimson as of late. The massive dust storm that has fully enveloped the planet is obscuring the Sun and bathing the landscape in a deep ...

Martian dust devils may spark with electricity, potentially zapping rovers. New models show that charged dust could interfere ...

The InSight mission on Mars is currently waiting out a continent-size dust storm that has caused the lander’s power levels to drop. InSight landed on Mars in November 2018 and has since been ...

Dust storms on Mars could one day pose dangers to human astronauts, damaging equipment and burying solar panels. New research gets closer to predicting when extreme weather might erupt on the Red ...

Dust storms on Mars are something to behold. Many begin as smaller storms that swirl around the ice caps at the planet's north and south poles, usually during the second half of the Martian year ...