NASA's Perseverance rover has captured unexpected footage of one dust devil consuming another during an imaging experiment.

The dust devil was about 210 feet wide, NASA said, but likely didn't last long after consuming the smaller whirlwind.

A six-wheeled robot wandering the rugged terrain of Mars recently came across two small tornadoes whipping around the planet's surface. In a short video released Thursday by NASA, the two dust ...

"These mini twisters wander the surface of Mars, picking up dust as they go and lowering the visibility in their immediate area. If two dust devils happen upon each other, they can either ...

Video footage captured by NASA's Perseverance rover shows a small "dust devil" merging with a much larger twister on the surface of Mars.

But recent research suggests yet another worry: toxic Martian dust. Cameras aboard NASA’s Mars rovers like Perseverance and Curiosity have extensively documented the planet’s barren ...

A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming a smaller one in a short video made of images taken by a navigation camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. These swirling, sometimes towering columns ...

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Don't inhale Martian dust, warns a new study by a team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder. The findings suggest that long-term exposure to Mars dust could ...

Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant countermeasures, new research suggests. Substances such as silica ...