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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Winds in dust storms on Mars can reach up to 60 mph, less than half the speed of some hurricane-force winds on Earth, according to NASA. CU Boulder professor Paul Hayne said dust storms are a long ...

It's like Mars in Fort Worth, #Texas, where a raging dust and sand storm has darkened the sky and blocked visibility, with winds of more than 60 mph lashing the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

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 ...