Wind On Mars

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  NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Captured with Dust Layers by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

  NASA’s retired InSight Mars lander has been spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in a recent image taken on October 23, 2024. The image, captured using the HiRISE camera, shows dust accumulation on InSight’s solar panels, now matching the reddish-brown Martian surface. This observation provides insights into wind patterns and dust m...

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  Mars' Blue Ripples Shed Light on Wind Behaviour on the Red Planet's Surface

  NASA's Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an intriguing picture of Mars. Taken near the centre of the Gamboa Crater on the Red Planet, the image features some blue ripples on the planet with red surface. According to NASA, the picture is called a false-colour image that helps scientists learn about the weather and geology.

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  NASA's Perseverance Rover Studies Intense Dust Storms on the Red Planet

  NASA's Perseverance had managed to film a phenomenon where gusts of wind lifted a massive Martian dust cloud. It has also detected hundreds of dust winds using the camera mounted on it and a suite of sensors.

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  ESA's Mars Express Mission Captures Image of Crater on Red Planet, Shares Uncanny Resemblance to Human Eye

  European Space Agency's Mars Express mission captured an image of Aonia Terra, a crater-filled region in the Red Planet's southern hemisphere. One of the images shows a crater encircled by winding channels. A closer look would suggest that the image looks eerily like a human eyeball.

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  Researchers Reveal How Mars Has Discreet Auroras Without Presence of Global Magnetic Field

  A team of scientists at the University of Iowa, US, have discovered how discrete auroras form on Mars in the absence of a global magnetic field. It has been reported that discrete auroras on the Red Planet are governed by the localised interaction between the solar wind and magnetic fields generated by the crust on Mars – unlike Earth, where auro...

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  First Audio Recorded On Mars Reveals Two Speeds Of Sound

  The first audio recordings on Mars reveal a quiet planet with occasional gusts of wind where two different speeds of sound would have a strange delayed effect on hearing, scientists said Friday.

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  Indian-American NASA Scientist Speaks To NDTV On Mars Mission: Full Transcript

  The US space agency NASA has released the first audio from Mars, a faint crackling recording of wind captured by the Perseverance rover. A microphone did not work during the rover's descent to the surface, but it was able to capture audio once it landed on Mars. NDTV spoke to Dr Swati Mohan, the Indian-American scientist, who led the guidance and c...

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  NASA's Maven Spacecraft Helps Map Winds in Mars' Upper Atmosphere for First Time

  Using data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, researchers have created the first-ever map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of Mars.

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  NASA's InSight Lander Sets Quake Monitor on Mars' Red Surface

  Mars InSight 's robotic arm removed the seismometer from the spacecraft deck and set it on the ground Wednesday to monitor Mars quakes.

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  NASA's InSight Lander 'Hears' Wind on Mars

  Humans can now hear the haunting, low rumble of wind on Mars for the first time, after NASA's InSight lander captured vibrations from the breeze on the Red Planet.

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  "Like A Waving Flag": NASA Craft 'Hears' Wind On Mars For The First Time

  Humans can now hear the haunting, low rumble of wind on Mars for the first time, after NASA's InSight lander captured vibrations from the breeze on the Red Planet, the US space agency said Friday.

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  SpaceX Falcon Heavy Updates: "World's Most Powerful Rocket" Lifts Off Towards Mars

  SpaceX monster rocket, the Falcon Heavy, was launched today from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The highly anticipated test flight was delayed due to "upper level wind shear," SpaceX mentioned on its Twitter handle.

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  Oldest Signs Of Life On Earth May Be In 3.95 Billion-Year-Old Rocks

  The Saglek Block rocks of northern Labrador have been submerged beneath water, sucked into Earth's interior, twisted, squeezed and torn by tectonic forces, wrenched upward, weathered by wind and waves, and otherwise subjected to every imaginable form of battering a piece of stone can endure in the course of 3.95 billion years.

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  NASA's Opportunity Rover Spots Evidence of Ancient Lake on Mars

  NASA's Opportunity rover found rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater that were either transported by a flood or eroded in place by wind.

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  Giant Magnetic Shield Could Make Mars Habitable: NASA Scientists

  Scientists at NASA have proposed that launching a giant magnetic shield into space to protect Mars from solar winds could give the Red Planet its atmosphere back and make it habitable for humans.