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NASA Shows Off GIF of a Dust Devil on Mars – Futurism

Mars’s “windy season” looks intense.

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Windy Season
The team behind NASAs Curiosity Mars rover have uploaded a fascinating GIF of a dust devil rolling over the surface of the Red Planets Gale crater, a massive meteor impact site and suspected dried up lake.
Were in the craters windy season right now, according to a NASA blog post  and that means plenty of swirling gusts of sand for the rover to observe.
Curiosity has taken the opportunity to track these winds by observing how ripples in the sand move across the surface.
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