The sound of a dust devil on Mars was recorded for the first time as the eye of the whirlwind swept over the top of NASA's Perseverance rover, a new study said Tuesday. "We hit the jackpot" when the ...

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The Perseverance rover listened in as a dust devil whirled by its location on Mars. The Perseverance rover listened in as a dust devil whirled by its location on Mars. On September 27th, 2021, a dust ...

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 ...

Thanks to a bit of good luck, the Mars rover Perseverance has captured the first-ever sound of a Martian dust devil. The NASA rover has witnessed dusty whirlwinds before. But when this one swept right ...

FILE - This photo made available by NASA was taken during the first drive of the Perseverance rover on Mars on March 4, 2021. A NASA rover on Mars by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower ...

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 ...

A dust devil looks a bit like a tornado, but is weaker and rarely lasts more than about a minute. It is a twisting column of warmed air scooting across sun-heated ground, made visible by the dust that ...

What's a dust devil sound like on Mars? A NASA rover, by chance, had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed directly overhead, recording the racket.It's about 10 seconds of not ...