For decades, we’ve seen dust devils from Mars rovers and orbiters. New research published on October 8, 2025, takes this a big step further. It’s the first study to track the motion of so many of ...

Recent observations have unveiled the intricate dance of a thousand Martian dust devils, offering a unique window into the wind patterns that shape the Red Planet’s surface. These swirling vortices, ...

Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic red dust, ...

For two decades, images from European spacecraft have captured bits of unremarkable digital noise as they photograph Mars. Now, scientists have turned that noise into a breakthrough, cataloging 1,039 ...

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 ...

Map showing active dust devils during local spring and summer in Mars’s northern and southern hemispheres. The coloured dots indicate 1039 dust devils for which we have only location information, and ...