The prospect of a colossal dust storm taking over our planetary neighbor in 2018 has some researchers excited. Mars ... global dust storm caused more than a hundred-fold increase in middle ...

Every so often, Mars experiences a dust storm that spans the entire planet — a global dust storm, one that may contribute to the loss of gas from the Red Planet's atmosphere. The possibility was ...

How do the atmospheric temperatures now compare to a storm-less year? And as with Mars Odyssey, the MRO team wants to know how these dust storms go global. “The very fact that you can start with ...

NASA's MAVEN mission arrived at Mars in 2014 to study the process of atmosphere escape. "It would not be a surprise to see a global dust storm this year, and we would love that opportunity," said ...

suggest there's a link between Mars' middle-atmosphere water volume and the escape of atmospheric hydrogen into space — at least during years without global dust storms. It's unclear what the ...

Mars is infamous ... in the Martian atmosphere during the 2018 and 2019 dust seasons, when assuming 1 to 10 cm thickness of Martian surface dust would be kicked up by a global dust storm.

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured the first hint of the Sun’s rays on Mars ... dust particles coating much of the planet’s surface and whip them up into global dust storms. With low ...

which combines spacecraft observations with atmospheric models. They focused on four Martian years (MY 29-32), deliberately ...

The reality is less cinematic. Mars’ atmosphere is much thinner than Earth’s, so dust storms on the Red Planet can’t generate much force. But they can still be trouble. In 2018, for example, a global ...

Mounting evidence suggests Mars was once a wet, warm, and possibly habitable planet. But over time, Mars lost its atmosphere ... dust storms, but in 2018 the planet was overtaken by a global ...