The Perseverance rover, which continues to explore the surface of the Red Planet, has for the first time filmed a moving sand vortex, which in English-speaking countries is called a “dust devil”.
A video has been published on Space.com, which shows that the “dust devil” is moving from right to left. Unfortunately, NASA did not provide information on the size of the vortex and its speed. Perseverance landed on Mars only on February 18 and has so far spent less than a month on the planet’s surface.
As already noted, giant dust vortices are quite common on the surface of Mars. For the first time such a tornado was photographed by the Viking apparatus back in the 1970s. Martian “dust devils” are usually dozens of times larger than those on Earth and pose a great threat to technology.
Recently, the Russian-European spacecraft Trace Gas Orbiter of the ExoMars-2016 mission sent a photograph of giant tornadoes, which was taken from the orbit of Mars.
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