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Today’s weather report on Mars: Windy with a chance of catastrophic dust storms blotting out the sky. In a new study, planetary scientists at CU Boulder have begun to unravel the factors that kick off ...
Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...
Storms of Consequence For decades of observation, Mars’ dust storms have been both a spectacle and a hazard. In 1971, NASA’s Mariner 9 (the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mars) arrived to find ...
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 ...
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 … ...
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, ...
Martian dust devils may spark with electricity, potentially zapping rovers. New models show that charged dust could interfere ...
Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...
Bhubaneswar/Rourkela: Researchers from NIT Rourkela, in collaboration with scientists from UAE University and Sun Yat-sen ...
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 ...