Scientists have known that Mars is rich in strange chemicals, especially chlorine-based compounds found by orbiters, rovers, ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Research shows Mars dust storms create electric discharges that drive chemical reactions, reshaping the planet's surface and ...

The high temperatures, combined with dry soil and unstable air currents, favored the formation of this whirlwind that raised dust and trash as it passed through the streets of the town.

There’s an electrifying new development in Mars science. NASA’s Perseverance rover has just captured proof of a weather phenomenon that was long suspected, but until now, never observed: electric ...

For the first time, we can see and hear lightning-like discharges in Mars' thin atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges, which sound ...

Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer's day. The source of these shocks is a spark discharge, occurring between your body and the body of the car.

For the first time, scientists have confirmed that electric discharges, in the form of tiny lightning bolts, are indeed occurring within the storms or "dust devils" that swirl across the Martian ...

Mars is cold, parched, and extremely dusty. Powerful gusts of wind kick up literal tons of reddish dust that often takes the form of whorls known as dust devils. These winds also shroud the planet in ...

Scientists have tracked 1,039 dust devils – tornado-like whirlwinds that skitter across the Red Planet. To do this, the team stitched together two decades of images from the European Space Agency’s ...