Mars is often imagined as a quiet, rusty desert, frozen in time. But look closer, and the Red Planet reveals a surprising secret: it’s alive with whirling dust devils – miniature tornadoes that dance ...

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 ...

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