NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a giant dust devil devouring a smaller storm swirling close behind it on the rim of Jezero Crater. Martian dust devils are spinning columns of warm air that ...

At the time, Perseverance's science team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California was using the rover to study and understand the forces at play in Mars' atmosphere. Dust devils ...

But the rover has been exploring the red planet since 2021, and it’s been carefully amassing a rock collection that could change our understanding of Mars’ history, how it compares to our own ...