NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Acoustic signals have been important markers during NASA's Mars missions. Measurements of sound can provide information both ...

A NASA rover that launched from Florida detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on Mars' ...

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

Listen as a dust devil sweeps past the Perseverance rover, producing tiny pops of thunder as it generates sparks of static ...

The Perseverance Mars rover captures a super rare phenomenon for the first time caused by dust devils on the surface of the ...

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 ...

Mars might look like an open desert of rock and dust, but it is already carved up by invisible boundaries that even the most ...

Learn about the latest recordings of dust devils on Mars, revealing the sound of electrical discharges in the atmosphere.

Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6.