"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover may have recorded evidence of a triboelectric discharge caused by a dust devil on Mars, according to a team who presented those findings at the 2025 Lunar and Planetary ...

A towering whirlwind of dust passed right over the NASA Perseverance rover as it explored the site of an ancient lake on Mars. The rover recorded the first sounds of a Martian dust devil using its ...

NASA's Perseverance Rover on the planet Mars, captured a dust devil moving across the rim of a crater as the robotic geologist was searching for signs of life on the red planet.

Dust devils also pose risks to inflatable structures. In 2010, three children in a bounce house were lifted more than 10 feet by a dust devil, traveling over a fence and landing in a backyard ...

Most dust devils are small in size and short-lived, typically lasting a few minutes and reaching no more than 100 feet in height. While this is true for some, it is not true for all.

A large, whirling dust devil caught one Iowa man's attention Wednesday. Matt Woods was driving down a gravel road in Boone County when he spotted the dirt-filled funnel whipping across a farm field.

Dust devils form on hot sunny days, Smith said, something the Grand Canyon State has in abundance. Plus, the dry weather provides dust for the weather phenomena to blow around.

Dust devils are relatively uncommon on the East Coast, especially in humid, green environments like Virginia. They're far more frequent in desert or dry, flat areas, such as Arizona or Nevada.