Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — Dust storms on Mars could one day pose dangers to human astronauts, damaging equipment and burying solar panels. New research gets closer to predicting when extreme weather might ...

2024 — Dust storms on Mars could one day pose dangers to human astronauts, damaging equipment and burying solar panels. New research gets closer to ... Ancient Hot Water on Mars Points to ...

and the platform’s solar panels will be replaced with a system that can supply power and heat even during dust storms on Mars. This will enable the samples to be returned to Earth sooner ...

In 2018, for example, a global dust storm smothered the solar panels on NASA’s Opportunity rover. The rover died not long after. The team looked at two storms the planet experienced every Mars year ...

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars ... s solar panels would be swapped for a radioisotope power system that can provide power and heat through the dust storm season.

Analysis of this data revealed that the storms tend to reduce both the solar energy absorbed and the heat emitted by Mars, possibly owing to the numerous dust particles floating in the atmosphere.