Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the leaders ...

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There’s an electrifying new development in Mars science. NASA’s Perseverance rover has just captured proof of a weather phenomenon that was long suspected, but until now, never observed: electric ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges and their ...

Landing on Mars is a nightmare — the air is too thin for parachutes alone, the ground is a field of jagged rocks, and the signal delay means you can’t save the craft in real time. NASA’s solution was ...

Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer's day. The source of these shocks is a spark discharge, occurring between your body and the body of the car.

Scientists now have proof that Mars' dusty storms can generate mini lightning, putting to rest decades of speculation. The discovery came from a microphone aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, a lab on ...

That Mars once hosted water is now old news, but have you ever imagined the Red Planet drenched in tropical storms? NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered light-colored rocks tossed about its ...

Implications for Mars' ancient climate The kaolinite fragments, which range from pebbles to boulders, are the latest small pieces to the larger debate regarding Mars' climate billions of years ago.