For now, the mystery of Mars’ red dust continues to intrigue. While spacecraft observations and lab experiments suggest that ferrihydrite holds the key to the planet’s color, only future ...

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NASA’s Curiosity rover snapped pictures of a long-sought geological structure — dubbed “spiderwebs” — on the Red Planet that indicate a history of flowing water, the space agency announced.

The NWS Chicago office confirmed that it's been close to a century since the city was hit with an event of this proportion; that storm took place in the early to mid-1930s, during the Dust Bowl era.