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See a dust devil whirl by the Mars Perseverance rover – Mashable

Desert sighting.

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Mars has excellent ingredients for dust devils.
While taking images of its new surroundings on the arid Martian surface, the Perseverance rover recently spotted a whirl of dust spinning by in the distance. Seen below, the dust devil appears beyond the rover’s arm:
Mars is an exceptionally dry, windswept desert planet today, so it’s ideal grounds for short-lived dust devils to form. Sometimes, long-lived great duststorms sweep the planet, too, shrouding vast swathes of Mars in reddish Martian dust.

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