NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

In a study published Nov. 26 in Nature, Baptiste Chide, a postdoctoral fellow in planetary acoustics at Los Alamos National ...

Learn about the latest recordings of dust devils on Mars, revealing the sound of electrical discharges in the atmosphere.

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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the sounds of electrical discharges —sparks — and mini-sonic booms in dust devils on Mars. Long theorized, the phenomenon has now been confirmed through ...

Scientists have confirmed that, within the swirling dust storms common on Mars' surface, small electrical discharges occur as ...

A team of researchers has been studying meteorological and air quality data collected during the 189 dust storms we’ve ...

Scientists believe it's unlikely the first person to plant a flag on the red planet would be stuck by lightning.

The discovery was made by analysing sounds from the atmosphere of the red planet obtained by the Perseverance rover.

Scientists have caught Mars's atmosphere crackling with static, uncovering evidence of miniature lightning in its dust storms.