A thousand martian dust devils help chart the Red Planet’s winds

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 martian dust devils to create the first global map of the Red Planet’s surface winds. The new study, published Oct. 8 in Science Advances, details howContinue reading “A thousand martian dust devils help chart the Red Planet’s winds”
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