The planet Mars is home to many wonders waiting to be discovered by humans in the coming years. Experts recently discovered dozens of dust devils screeching across the planet’s surface in plain sight.

Europe's Mars Express orbiter recently imaged a huge valley system on the Red Planet — and dust devils dot the alien ...

The images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), one of eight instruments aboard Mars Express.

It confirms that although dust devils are found all over Mars, even on its towering volcanoes, lots are swept up from certain "source regions." For example, many were clustered in Amazonis Planitia ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of Mars during a global dust storm in 2018. Mars is capable of churning out some gnarly dust storms. Sometimes, these storms go global, turning the red ...

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Every Martian year (which last 686.98 Earth days), the red planet experiences regional dust storms that coincide with summer in the southern hemisphere. Every three Martian years (five and a half ...

Global dust storms on Mars could soon become more predictable — which would be a boon for future astronauts there — if the next one follows a pattern suggested by those in the past. A published ...

Today’s weather report on Mars: Windy with a chance of catastrophic dust storms blotting out the sky. In a new study, planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have begun to unravel ...

Mars is infamous for its intense dust storms, some of which kick up enough dust to be seen by telescopes on Earth. When dust particles rub against each other, as they do in Martian dust storms, they ...