Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, prohibiting the flow of charges. This could cause a massive charge buildup in a ...

"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...

Dust devils on Mars, indeed, are a fascinating and curious phenomenon. Advertisement And deepening the intrigue, the new study suggests lightning could be zapping inside these dust devils on Mars.

NASA's Perseverance rover may have recorded evidence of a triboelectric discharge caused by a dust devil on Mars, according to a team who presented those findings at the 2025 Lunar and Planetary ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured several images of the Insight lander on the Red Planet between 2018 and ...

Dust devils have a reputation for being both helpful and harmful on Mars. The InSight lander’s mission is expected to end this month after spending four years studying quakes and other ...

The sound of a dust devil on Mars was recorded for the first time as the eye of the whirlwind swept over the top of NASA's Perseverance rover, a new study said Tuesday.

A towering whirlwind of dust passed right over the NASA Perseverance rover as it explored the site of an ancient lake on Mars. The rover recorded the first sounds of a Martian dust devil using its ...

Dust devils are common on Mars. NASA's rovers have seen them from ground level . NASA's now-defunct Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft even caught a dust devil in the act of making a dark streak back ...

Live images of Mars streamed by European Space Agency 00:26. A camera on NASA's Perserverance rover captured a dust devil more than a mile high moving across a ridge on Mars, the agency said in a ...

"Dust devils on Mars only last about 10 minutes." The largest devil was likely spinning at a max speed of more than 10 mph (16 km/h), based on data collected from previous sightings.