Europe's Mars Express orbiter recently imaged a huge valley system on the Red Planet — and dust devils dot the alien ...

The images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), one of eight instruments aboard Mars Express.

(CNN) — Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic ...

Dust devils whirling across Mars show that the wind on the planet can reach up to 160 kilometres per hour, according to a new study. Researchers used the European Space Agency’s Mars Expressand ...

It confirms that although dust devils are found all over Mars, even on its towering volcanoes, lots are swept up from certain "source regions." For example, many were clustered in Amazonis Planitia ...

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Map showing active dust devils during local spring and summer in Mars’s northern and southern hemispheres. The coloured dots indicate 1039 dust devils for which we have only location information, and ...

If you think it’s been windy in these parts in recent days: The UA’s HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured this shot of a half-mile-tall dust devil skirting across the ...