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When a massive dust storm swept across Mars, it altered the planet’s surface and atmosphere for months. After the storm cleared, the Opportunity rover documented the changes left behind. The aftermath ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrical discharges turn out to be quite common inside Martian dust devils. (Credit: NASA/JPL) New evidence from NASA, published ...

The land flattens on the approach to Birao, a cut-off town ringed by savannah in the far north of the Central African Republic, where roads dissolve into dust and motorcycles vastly outnumber cars.

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