Electric sparks on Mars can endanger. Space missions.

 

"Detection of electric discharges in dust devils by the SuperCam instrument, on board the Perseverance rover on Mars. Credit: Nicolas Sarter"(ScitechDaily, Scientists Have Detected Electric Sparks on Mars, and It Could Rewrite What We Know About Its Atmosphere)

"Electrical sparks inside Martian dust devils have been detected for the first time, reshaping how scientists understand the planet’s atmosphere and climate." (ScitechDaily, Scientists Have Detected Electric Sparks on Mars, and It Could Rewrite What We Know About Its Atmosphere)

On Mars, strong winds routinely generate swirling columns of fine dust. While passing through the center of two such dust devils, the SuperCam instrument’s microphone, the first microphone ever deployed on Mars, unexpectedly picked up unusually intense signals." (ScitechDaily, Scientists Have Detected Electric Sparks on Mars, and It Could Rewrite What We Know About Its Atmosphere)

The electricity on the Red Planet can destroy electronics. And endanger even manned missions. 

The electric sparks in sand devils could explain some mysteries about missing Mars landers. Sand devils are tornadoes of dust that have very small sand particles. Those particles cause friction while they whirl, and that forms electric sparks. That electric spark can form in a magnetic field when iron-rich particles start to whirl in an electromagnetic field. Or those particles must have some kind of electric load. Maybe the electricity. Form in clouds. 

Maybe. Some of those minerals have similar abilities to crystals or perovskite. This means that sunlight or mechanical stress can form those electric sparks. 

Static electricity forms in cases where electrons start to form holes. There is also a possibility. The clouds of Mars have some kind of electromagnetic phenomenon. Those clouds are mainly ice. And airflows can create lots of static electricity in those clouds. If a sand devil moves below those clouds. That sand tornado can offer. An eruption channel. To electricity that forms in clouds. That dust transports electricity to the ground. 

And electricity starts to move. There is possibility. The electric sparks in the sand devil and the magnetic field that the sand tornado forms could affect some spacecraft communication antennas. This means there is a theoretical possibility.  That. The magnetic field cuts communication between the probe and Earth. Or maybe. 

The magnetic field and electric sparks can cause overload to electrical circuits. If the space probe. Will go in the sand devil. It's possible that those electromagnetic fields can break the probe’s computers. Or those electric sand devils can conduct electricity to Mars’s clouds. And those electrically loaded clouds can cause a false echo that the probe translates as the probe being higher than it is. And that means it opens the parachute too late. 

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