Curious, indeed! Our pal Curiosity recently captured "several whirlwinds carrying Martian dust across Gale Crater" on Mars, according to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. These dust devils rise up when sunshine warms the ground, prompting convective rising of air. In the video below, timing is accelerated and contrast has been modified to make frame-to-frame changes easier to see, NASA JPL explained online. | Space.com

NASA's Perseverance rover's SuperCam microphone captured sounds from electrical discharges from dust devils on Mars in 2024. The audio is set against recent footage captured of dust devils churning on the Red Planet snapped in Sept. 2025. Read more👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/yMhDpU Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ISAE-Supaero| edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta | Space.com