The six-wheeled rover, exploring Mars since 2021 at a locale called Jezero Crater in its northern hemisphere, picked up these ...
What does electrical activity and dust storms on Mars have in common? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes ...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the sounds of electrical discharges —sparks — and mini-sonic booms in dust devils on Mars. Long theorized, the phenomenon has now been confirmed through ...
Rather than big bolts of lightning as seen on Earth, NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded audio of small zaps similar to those ...
Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...
Dust devils on Mars generate tiny electrical sparks. This could help explain how the Red Planet’s atmosphere and surface are ...
Scientists have confirmed that, within the swirling dust storms common on Mars' surface, small electrical discharges occur as ...
Scientists believe it's unlikely the first person to plant a flag on the red planet would be stuck by lightning.
For the first time, scientists have caught a key driver of the ongoing erosion of the atmosphere of Mars in action. It took more than nine years' worth of satellite data, but a team led by planetary ...
A lonely rover toiling among the sands of Mars has now answered an age-old question: If lightning crackles on the red planet ...
BEIJING -- A group of Chinese researchers has carried out a comprehensive simulation of the Martian dust cycle, based on ...
Minneapolis was colder than Mars last month - Mars was a balmy 30 degrees Fahrenheit while the Gopher State saw a cold snap ...