Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA’s Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a microphone on the rover,

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected for decades but never seen.

The Perseverance rover picked up audio evidence of electric discharges in the red planet’s atmosphere. It is shocking but not surprising. Lightning crackles on Mars, scientists reported on Wednesday.

The presence of electrical activity has implications for surface chemistry, future human exploration and habitability on the Red Planet

Dust devils on Mars could be brewing electric currents, and scientists may have just heard them strike the arid landscape in a first-of-its-kind discovery. Planetary scientists detected new evidence of lightning on Mars in sounds and electrical signal Perseverance rover,

On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ever sent to the Red Planet. The two-ton science laboratory is about the size of a small SUV.

NASA's Perseverance rover has, for the first time, obtained evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is electrically active, detecting electrical discharges - what one scientist called "mini-lightning." The electrical discharges in audio and electromagnetic recordings made by its SuperCam remote-sensing instrument.

A lonely rover toiling among the sands of Mars has now answered an age-old question: If lightning crackles on the red planet and no one hears it, does it still make a sound? In recordings obtained by NASA's Perseverance rover,