The blueprint outlines the equipment, landing-site criteria and environmental constraints that will determine what is ...

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Learn about the latest recordings of dust devils on Mars, revealing the sound of electrical discharges in the atmosphere.

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the sounds of electrical discharges —sparks — and mini-sonic booms in dust devils on Mars. Long theorized, the phenomenon has now been confirmed through ...

Tiny sparks inside Martian dust clouds have just rewritten what scientists thought they knew about the Red Planet’s weather.

What does electrical activity and dust storms on Mars have in common? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes ...

BEIJING -- A group of Chinese researchers has carried out a comprehensive simulation of the Martian dust cycle, based on ...

Dust devils on Mars generate tiny electrical sparks. This could help explain how the Red Planet’s atmosphere and surface are ...