Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mars doesn't get rain like Earth does, but dust storms are common on the red planet. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona Mars is a ...

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Mars is usually a safe 225 million kilometers away from Earth, but what if the red planet went off course and headed straight toward us? This nightmare scenario would cause devastation long before the ...

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Nilton O. Rennó receives funding from NASA, JPL, DARPA, and IARPA. Mars is a very dry planet with very little water in its atmosphere and hardly any clouds, so you might not expect it to have storms.