global dust storm
Amazing View of How Dust Storms Grow on Mars
In 2018, Mars experienced one of its global dust storms, a phenomenon seen nowhere else. As science would have it,…
4 years ago
It’s Been Exactly One Year Since Opportunity Sent This Final Message Home – on its 5,111th Martian Day
Opportunity's final message home is not much to look at on its own. If you're old enough to remember film…
5 years ago
The Global Dust Storm that Ended Opportunity Helped Teach us how Mars Lost its Water
The enduring, and maybe endearing, mystery around Mars is what happened to its water? We can say with near-certainty now,…
6 years ago
A Tiny Motor on Curiosity was one of the First Instruments to Notice the Global Martian Dust Storm
A tiny actuator on a sample arm on the Curiosity rover gave the first indication that a storm on the…
6 years ago