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A dust devil was spotted forming on an Oklahoma interstate just west of El Reno, footage posted on Monday, September 8 showed. Amelia Urquhart filmed the footage as she traveled on Interstate 40.

By tracking how fast the dust devils moved, the researchers found wind speeds of up to 44 m/s, or 158 km/h. This is faster than we've ever measured with rovers on the ground—though it's worth noting ...

For two decades, images from European spacecraft have captured bits of unremarkable digital noise as they photograph Mars. Now, scientists have turned that noise into a breakthrough, cataloging 1,039 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across the surface of ...

Map showing active dust devils during local spring and summer in Mars’s northern and southern hemispheres. The coloured dots indicate 1039 dust devils for which we have only location information, and ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected the first-ever evidence of lightning on Mars, characterized by sharp crackles during dust devils. These small, centimeter-scale discharges, caused by friction ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

BRIDGETON, Mo. — A 5 On Your Side viewer caught a giant dust devil on video as it spun through a north St. Louis County work site on Thursday. The small twister whipped dust and rock hundreds of feet ...

What can dust devils on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s weather and climate cycles? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists ...