Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Perseverance rover took its fifth selfie on May 10, 2025. A NASA rover ambling over the red desert planet for the past four ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars has for the first time ever detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes ...

On Mars, winds constantly stir up whirlwinds of fine dust. It was at the center of two of these dust devils that the SuperCam instrument's microphone, the first ever to operate on Mars, accidentally ...

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 ...

This is the first Mars rover with a microphone, and it captured the eerie sounds of Perseverance driving over the regolith during one of NASA's tests. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s newest Mars rover has sent back the first-ever sounds of driving on the red planet — a grinding, clanking, banging affair that by Earth standards would be pretty ...

The speed of sound changes by around 10 percent from day to night, but sound on the Red Planet gets much stranger than that.

Researchers believe Perseverance recorded 55 instances of "mini lightning," providing the first sound evidence of Martian electrical activity. The lightning occurs during dust storms and dust devils, ...

Scientists believe they have detected lightning on Mars, thanks to the sensitive microphone aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover. The discovery was made by "eavesdropping" on the planet's whirling winds.