One storm is around the Valles Marineris area which is on the other side of the planet from Isidis Planitia (our landing site) and is therefore much less concern. A local storm is presently heading towards the Hellas Basin. But even this is several thousand kilometres from our predicted landing site.

A local dust storm can develop into a regional one or even a global one. But as global dust storms statistically happen during the summer in the southern hemisphere on Mars, and this is now coming to an end, we are hopeful that this is all a dust storm in a tea cup. We will continue to monitor events and try to work out if there are any implications for the lifetime of Beagle 2's solar arrays as the dust settles.