How upcoming missions to Mars will help predict its wild dust storms0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2020
Future trips by rovers and astronauts will need better forecasts to survive dangerous weather
Future trips by rovers and astronauts will need better forecasts to survive dangerous weather
Images from the 1930s captured the immensity of the American Dust Bowl, and modern snapshots reveal massive “haboob” dust storms intensely rolling over the Sahara Desert. Now, astronomers have taken pictures of something stunningly similar on an altogether alien location: They observed dust storms on Saturn’s moon Titan. The discovery of dust storms blowing across
Mars is experiencing an estimated 15.8-million-square-mile dust storm, roughly the size of North and South America. This storm may not be good news for the NASA solar-powered Opportunity rover, but one Penn State professor sees this as a chance to learn more about Martian weather.