US EditionMars Is Covered in Toxic Dust – And It’s a Serious Threat to Human Exploration
- The Perseverance rover observed a larger dust devil, approximately 210 feet wide, consuming a smaller one, about 16 feet wide, on Mars.
- Mark Lemmon, a Perseverance scientist, explained that dust devils can merge or obliterate each other when they come into contact.
- Dust devils play a significant role in Martian weather and contribute to about half the dust in the atmosphere, according to NASA.
- NASA utilized images captured by the Perseverance rover during an imaging experiment to create a video of the dust devils.
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Perseverance Watched a Dust Devil Eat Another
NASA's Perseverance was scanning the rim of Jezero Crater when it spotted a Martian dust devil overtake and consume another smaller one. The rover was about a kilometer away from the larger dust devil, which was about 65 meters wide. The smaller one was about 5 meters wide. This isn't Perseverance's first encounter with dust devils. It's seen clusters dancing around it and even captured audio of a dust devil on Mars for the first time.
A great and powerful Martian dust devil swallows another in new video
Something about this time of year on Mars is reminiscent of 1939's The Wizard of Oz. Maybe it's the ruddiness of the planet that gives off its own natural sepia tone like we see in Victor Fleming's film adaptation. Maybe it's the tornadoes, sometimes so tall they seem like they could lift more than a few farmhouses. But one thing's for sure about these freakish alien dust devils: You're definitely not in Kansas if you see them. More like 140 mil…
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