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Map showing active dust devils during local spring and summer in Mars’s northern and southern hemispheres. The coloured dots indicate 1039 dust devils for which we have only location information, and ...

Tiny tornadoes of dust whirl across Mars's rusty plains far faster than scientists thought, a new study reveals. The results could help scientists plan future Mars missions by accounting for the ...

(CNN) — Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across the ...

Mars is a harsh, dusty world where fine, electrostatically charged particles shape both its landscape and the fate of robotic ...

If you think it’s been windy in these parts in recent days: The UA’s HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured this shot of a half-mile-tall dust devil skirting across the ...

Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic red dust, ...