Mars has excellent ingredients for dust devils.
While taking images of its new surroundings on the arid Martian surface, the Perseverance rover recently spotted a whirl of dust spinning by in the distance. Seen below, the dust devil appears beyond the rover’s arm:
See the zoomed-in view of this dust devil on Marspic.twitter.com/4ILDqoejZ8
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) March 16, 2021
Mars is an exceptionally dry, windswept desert planet today, so it’s ideal grounds for short-lived dust devils to form. Sometimes, long-lived great duststorms sweep the planet, too, shrouding vast swathes of Mars in reddish Martian dust. Read more…
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