Perseverance rover spots its first dust devil on Mars – Space.com

NASA’s newest Mars
rover nabbed a significant extraterrestrial sighting when an onboard camera happened to spot a Red Planet dust devil crossing Jezero Crater.
Engineers on the Perseverance rover
mission saw the whirlwind in the distance of images captured by one of the rover’s cameras as the dust made its way behind the rover’s robotic arm. NASA published footage of the dust devil but has not released estimates of its size or speed.
“Spotted a dust devil. You can see it in the distance behind…

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