In June, one of these dust events rapidly engulfed the planet. Scientists first observed a smaller-scale dust storm on May 30. By June 20, it had gone global. For the […] ...

A dust storm that engulfed Mars in 2018 destroyed a vortex of cold air around the planet's south pole and brought an early spring to the hemisphere. By contrast, the storm caused only minor ...

Mars hasn’t had a global dust storm since 2007, and while scientists were able to observe the event in the past, the current instruments in orbit around the Red Planet would allow us to study a ...

New images reveal that the strange Martian stripes on the slopes are formed by avalanches of dry dust, not liquid water.

Also, the high yield of released chlorine atoms from chlorides can account for the high concentrations of hydrogen chloride observed in the Martian atmosphere during the 2018 and 2019 dust seasons ...

In a nutshell • Tiny atmospheric ripples called gravity waves, not large planetary waves, are the main drivers of Mars’s weather patterns, especially in the middle and upper atmosphere.

Monstrous dust storms often ravage Mars, engulfing the Red Planet for months. Now, a new study suggests these global storms may be related to a peculiar energy imbalance recently discovered across ...

NASA regularly posts highly impressive GIFs of glimpses beyond our own atmosphere, and this week, it's another beauty from Mars. On Thursday, the space agency's Curiosity rover posted two animated ...

"Although these huge atmospheric events are generally separated by many years," said astronomer Deborah Padgett in a mission post, "the last sky-darkening global Martian dust storm in 2018 ended ...

The first "real world" study of how Martian dust is lifted from the surface of the planet by moving air currents has been carried out by Stevens Institute of Technology, the Space Science Institute, ...

Rather, the MAVEN team wants to study how the dust storm affects Mars’ upper atmosphere, about 62 miles (more than 100 kilometers) above the surface — where the dust doesn’t even reach.