These sparks happen from accumulation of static electric charge—often arising from two different materials rubbing together.

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Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

This video explored the story of Spirit, the Mars rover that was expected to last 90 days but ended up surviving six years on ...

Listen as a dust devil sweeps past the Perseverance rover, producing tiny pops of thunder as it generates sparks of static ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found kaolinite clay in Mars' Jezero Crater, proving ancient heavy rainfall and tropical-like ...

The Perseverance Mars rover captures a super rare phenomenon for the first time caused by dust devils on the surface of the ...

For the first time ever, the Perseverance Mars rover recorded electrical discharges and mini-sonic booms coming from dust ...

NASA’s first Mars helicopter turned a risky experiment into a new way of exploring another world, and now its successors are ...

NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the moon during the Artemis IV ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover detected electric sparks in Martian dust devils, confirming charged particles exist in Mars’ ...