NASA Mars rover captures crackling lightning. Hear the 'thunder' yourself.

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

Nasa robot rover shows that sparks fly in dust storms on Mars

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...
Earth.com

NASA's newest mission hopes to learn how and why Mars became a dead planet

NASA is sending two spacecraft to Mars on their new ESCAPADE mission to reveal how space weather robbed it of its atmosphere and turned it dry ...
KTEN

NASA rover records first evidence of lightning on Mars

A NASA rover has recorded evidence of lightning on Mars for the first time, its microphone picking up the sounds of tiny ...
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OTD In Space - November 18: NASA Launches MAVEN To Mars

On13, NASA launched the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars. The name MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. The spacecraft is an orbiter designed to help scientists figure out what happened to ...
USA Today

Did NASA's Perseverance rover find signs of life on Mars? Here's what we know

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...
Ars Technica

NASA found intriguing rocks on Mars, so where does that leave Mars Sample Return?

NASA’s interim administrator, Sean Duffy, was fired up on Wednesday when he joined a teleconference to talk about new scientific findings that concerned the potential for life to have once existed on ...