"If two dust devils happen upon each other, they can either obliterate one another or merge, with the stronger one consuming ...

Mars is a devil eat devil world. The Perseverance rover recently witnessed a gruesome scene on the Red Planet, in which a ...

On Mars, swirling columns of dust—known as dust devils—regularly roam the landscape, sometimes colliding in dramatic displays like one recently captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover. In a rare moment, ...

At the time, Perseverance's science team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California was using the rover to study and understand the forces at play in Mars' atmosphere. Dust devils ...

The Perseverance rover, which has been on the surface of Mars since 2021, was on the western rim of the planet's Jezero Crater when it spotted the dust devils from a little over half a mile away.

But recent research suggests yet another worry: toxic Martian dust. Cameras aboard NASA’s Mars rovers like Perseverance ... colleagues suggest that exposure mitigation be prioritized in mission ...

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