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The high resolution stereo camera on board ESA’s Mars Express captured this impressive upwelling front of dust clouds – visible in the right half of the frame – near the north polar ice cap of Mars in April this year. It was one of several local small-scale dust storms that have been observed in recent months at the Red Planet, which is currently enduring a particularly intense dust storm season. A much larger storm emerged further southwest at the end of May and developed into a global, planet-encircling dust storm within several weeks. The intensity of this major event means very little light from the Sun reaches the martian surface, a situation extreme enough that NASA’s 15-year old Opportunity rover has been unable to recharge its batteries and call home: it has been in hibernation mode since mid-June.

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Largest dust storm on Mars ever recorded may reveal why it's so dry

The same dust storm on Mars that killed the Opportunity rover is helping us understand how the planet became so inhospitable

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Curiosity rovr

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Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars

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Martian landscape

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Water on Mars is probably too cold and salty for life as we know it

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Osuga Valles

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Mars used to have massive flowing rivers twice as wide as Earth’s

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InSight

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NASA’s InSight lander is using magnetism to search for water on Mars

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Asteroids hitting Mars could have made hot rain fall for decades

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Asteroids hitting Mars could have made hot rain fall for decades

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European Mars rover named after DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin

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Opportunity Mars rover is officially dead after 15-year mission

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Opportunity Mars rover is officially dead after 15-year mission

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European Mars rover named after DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin

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European Mars rover named after DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin

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Curiosity

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We’ve hacked the Curiosity rover to learn how mountains form on Mars

Hacking the Curiosity rover let researchers measure the density of the rocks it was driving over, revealing that Martian mountains may not form how we thought

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Anu Ojha: Will humans make it to Mars?

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We could drill water wells in Martian ice to survive on the Red Planet

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Exhibition previews: Visions of a better tomorrow brighten 2019

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Ice-filled Martian crater is a permanent winter wonderland

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