The team discovered that warm and sunny weather may help trigger the dust storms.
Mars storms can sometimes be large enough to be seen by telescopes on Earth.
Those bad boys are the ones we need to worry about.
An illustration of a dust storm on Mars.NASA
Thats why scientists are studying the causes of these dust storms to improve predictions of when they might occur.
We dont even fully understand the basic physics of how dust storms start at the surface.
This study is not the end all be all of predicting storms on Mars, Pieris said.
But we hope its a step in the right direction.
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