Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover

Nasa's Perseverance rover, which touched down on Mars in 2021, was sent to search for signs of biology and has spent the last four years exploring the Jezero Crater region. Electrical discharges nicknamed "mini lightning" were picked up from audio and electromagnetic recordings made by the rover's SuperCam instrument.

NASA's Perseverance rover has recorded the first evidence of electrical activity on Mars that a scientist described as "mini lightning."

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

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.

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,