Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called “dust ...

“Dust, wind and sand dynamics appear to be the main seasonal drivers of slope streak formation,” Bickel said in a statement. ...

When a meteoroid shook the edge of Apollinaris Mons on Mars, it triggered streaks that carved a hundred new scratches on the ...

Rovers and landers on Mars can measure wind speed only where they are located — they cannot check winds across the whole ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have taken the closest-ever look at the dusty regions where planets form, offering new insight into the earliest stages of ...

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 ...

Images of dust devils, whirlwinds of dust that are blown across Mars’ surface. © CC BY SA 3.0 IGO, ESA/TGO/CaSSIS for CaSSIS Dust devils swirl like spectral ...

An international team led by the University of Bern tracked 1,039 dust devils — tornado-like whirlwinds — across the planet’s surface using 20 years of European Space Agency satellite images. The ...

Nearly 50 years ago, NASA’s twin Viking orbiters captured images of narrow, twisty columns of dust swirling their way across the Martian surface. The shadowy figures were later confirmed to be dust ...

BRIDGETON, Mo. — A 5 On Your Side viewer caught a giant dust devil on video as it spun through a north St. Louis County work site on Thursday. The small twister whipped dust and rock hundreds of feet ...

What can dust devils on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s weather and climate cycles? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists ...