NASA's Perseverance rover has detected 'mini-lightning' on Mars for the first time, capturing faint crackles from dust-driven electrical discharges during storms. These tiny, centimetre-scale sparks, ...

Dust devils on Mars could be brewing electric currents, and scientists may have just heard them strike the arid landscape in a first-of-its-kind discovery. Planetary scientists detected new evidence ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a ...

The Perseverance rover on Mars has serendipitously recorded sounds and electromagnetic signals that are characteristic of lightning in dust storms. Daniel Mitchard is at the Lightning Laboratory, ...

For years scientists have suspected that there is electrical activity on Mars. A study now confirms it: particles in the dusty Martian atmosphere rub against one another, building up electrical charge ...

Mars regularly experiences dust storms, like this one captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2012. Scientists say they found evidence of "mini lightning" during some of these storms. NASA / ...

Researchers say more than 50 instances of lightning on Mars were detected on audio recordings from the Perseverance rover — the first time such data has been captured. The team suggested dust devils ...

Mini-lightning strikes created by whirling dust devils on Mars have been detected accidentally by the microphone on board the Perseverance rover. The chance discovery is direct evidence of a form of ...

The Perseverance rover picked up audio evidence of electric discharges in the red planet’s atmosphere. By Kenneth Chang It is shocking but not surprising. Lightning crackles on Mars, scientists ...

Nasa has, for the first time, found signs of 'mini-lightning' on Mars after its rover accidentally recorded tiny “zaps” during the planet’s frequent dust storms. Scientists have argued for years about ...

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