Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air to rush in and start rotating. As this spinning air column accelerates, it ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spots a large dust devil on Mars swallowing another smaller dust devil in images recorded on Jan. 25, 2025. Something about this time of year on Mars is reminiscent of 1939's ...

And with these 'dust devils' collected into a single public catalog, this research is just the beginning. Besides pure science, it will be useful for planning future missions, for example, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks in dust devils on the planet Mars. The crackles, which the rover ...

A NASA rover that launched from Florida detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on Mars' ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover spotted a large dust devil (on the right) consuming a smaller, fainter twister (on the left in the foreground). NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / CNRS / INTA-CSIC / ...

A video caught the moment a dust devil spiraled into the air at a California youth football game, sending debris flying and people running. The video posted on TikTok shows what’s known as a dust ...

An Iowa man captured video this week of a large dust devil that whipped up in the middle of Gowrie. KCCI Chief Meteorologist Jason Sydejko called the dust devil "incredibly defined," as it spun for ...

A snownado is the snow equivalent of a tornado and can be used to describe snow-devils, snow waterspouts, snow landspouts and tornadoes that occur with snow.

WITH YOUR STORM WATCH NINE FORECAST. LOTS OF SUNSHINE TODAY. LIGHTER WINDS. AND THEN THIS HAPPENED IN TAMWORTH. THAT’S RIGHT. A DUST DEVIL WE JUST SHOWED YOU. DOESN’T HAPPEN TYPICALLY ON A GUSTY DAY ...

YUCATAN, Mexico -- While the sight of a dust devil might send most people running, one man chose to run directly into a dust devil at the foot of a Mayan pyramid. Footage shared to Instagram by ...