The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spots a dust devil in motion on Mars. ESA/TGO/CaSSIS

Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet.

Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic red dust, which was caught in the wind’s vortices, creating a phenomenon known as dust devils.

These tornado-like whirlwinds also occur on Earth, but the new catalog of Martian dust devils, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances , shows that Martian dust devils seem to move much faster and are more abundant on a global scale, said lead study author Dr. Valentin Bickel, a Center for Space and Habitability fellow at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Researchers compiled the new publicly available

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