Above, we see some pretty incredible .gif – footage. And so, we will open the week with a time lapse letterbox render of a series of dust devils, shot on Mars, by Perseverance.
Pretty impressive — and here is the full story from NASA | JPL. It was shot at Jezero Crater, near the Octavia E. Butler landing field:
…During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by a mission sent to the Red Planet’s surface. Not only did the rover detect hundreds of dust-bearing whirlwinds called dust devils, Perseverance captured the first video ever recorded of wind gusts lifting a massive Martian dust cloud.
A paper recently published in Science Advances chronicles the trove of weather phenomena observed in the first 216 Martian days, or sols. The new findings enable scientists to better understand dust processes on Mars and contribute to a body of knowledge that could one day help them predict the dust storms that Mars is famous for — and that pose a threat to future robotic and human explorers….
“Jezero Crater may be in one of the most active sources of dust on the planet,” said Manuel de la Torre Juarez, MEDA’s deputy principal investigator at JPL. “Everything new we learn about dust will be helpful for future missions.”
The study authors found that at least four whirlwinds pass Perseverance on a typical Martian day and that more than one per hour passes by during a peak hourlong period just after noon….
The more you know, right? Right! Onward, smiling into the warm night, as a hot red coal rises to the southeast now, with… a moan….
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