NASA's Perseverance Mars rover delivered a spectacular video of a dusty whirlwind blasting across the rocky landscape.
Mars is a dusty and windy place. Put those two factors together and you get some spectacular whirlwinds. NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a lucky sequence of images showing a
NASA released a GIF of the whirlwind on September 29. The video is made up of 21 frames taken four seconds apart by one of the rover’s navigation cameras. The Navcams help Perseverance survey the landscape and make decisions about where and how to drive. One of the mast-mounted cameras fortuitously captured the dust devil at the end of August.
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