Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured the first direct recordings of electric sparks crackling inside Martian dust devils, ...

On the surface of Mars, the atmosphere is so razor thin that future colonizers would be wise to build an underground solar radiation bunker. But there's still enough atmosphere to make some truly ...

The Navcam scene (the average background image, top panel) and each dust devil image processed to dust amount (five lower panels), masking out only the truly indeterminate areas (grey). The colour ...

Dust devils regularly sweep across the surface of Mars. But now, for the first time, scientists have captured the sound of one. During a chance encounter last September, a dust-filled vortex ran into ...

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The Mars rover was out and about, doing its normal rover things inside one of the red planet’s craters, when there was a sudden shift in the atmosphere. A vortex of air and dust had swirled into shape ...

When the rover Perseverance landed on Mars, it was equipped with the first working microphone on the planet's surface. Scientists have used it to make the first-ever audio recording of an ...