Mars attack! A 387-foot dust devil swarms the rover, and it was all recorded.
The trove of data coming from the encounter has thrilled scientists, who are keenly aware of the outsize influence Martian dust has on the planet’s climate. The fine-grained particles also can damage scientific instruments on Martian landers and rovers and potentially blanket solar panels to the point of uselessness. Studying the rover’s gritty recordings can provide insights into the way dust might affect ongoing Mars missions, and maybe even future human exploration., is subtle.
This was not exactly an “extreme weather” event. Mars has a trifling atmosphere, about 1 percent as dense as Earth’s, so the storms thereStill, there is plenty of signal in this short dose of noise, and in the visual images taken by the SuperCam instrument on top of the rover. Researchers estimate the dust devil was about 25 meters wide and 118 meters high. That’s taller than the Statue of Liberty, pedestal included.
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