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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.

Dust devils often pop up here on Earth when a column of wind whips up debris in deserts, but this frenzied weather spectacle also happens on Mars too. Although Martian dust devils may look somewhat ...

In January, a major dust storm on Mars prompted NASA to postpone the 19th flight of its Ingenuity helicopter. When the dust settled, the team overseeing the mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...