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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrical discharges turn out to be quite common inside Martian dust devils. (Credit: NASA/JPL) New evidence from NASA, published ...

Mars isn’t just dusty—it crackles with electricity. Scientists discovered that dust devils can generate tiny electric sparks, captured for the first time by Perseverance’s microphone. These static ...

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