DUST DEVIL IN MARS CAPTURED IN AN IMAGE!

[HURAKAN]

MOVIE: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ ... A476R1.gif

Sign of Spring?

Rover science team member Ron Greeley, Director of the Planetary Geology Group, has been tracking and studying dust devil characteristics in detail on both Mars and Earth for the past couple of years. Scientists believe the small cyclones are seasonal, perhaps linked to wind storms that occur in the martian spring.

"We're trying to determine whether dust devils play a small or large role in changing the surface of Mars in the short-term," says Thompson.



ULTRA-EXTREMELY INTERESTING, RIGHT!!!!!!

[Aquawind]

That's pretty cool stuff..

Paul

[senorpepr]

This movie clip shows a dust devil growing in size and blowing across the plain inside Mars' Gusev Crater. The clip consists of frames taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the morning of the rover's 496th martian day, or sol (May 26, 2005). Contrast has been enhanced for anything in the images that changes from frame to frame, that is, for the dust moved by wind.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Texas A&M

[Hurricaneman]

Awesome