NASA Mars Rover captures a gigantic devil’s dust absorbing her friend

Mars is the world of the Devil’s Devil. Recently, Rover’s perseverance witnessed a terrible scene on the Red Planet, in which the devil of the dust consumes his smaller counterpart, transforming into one, slightly larger, rotating air column and dust.

NASA’s six-collector robot conducts an image experiment to better understand the Martian atmosphere when it captures the two dust devils in play. Using his navigation camera, the persistence Rover clicked images of several dust devils that rotate irregularly along the western edge of the Mars Crater of Jezero in an area called Witch Hazel Hill.

The images were sewn in a short video, which revealed the larger powder devil, which was approximately 210 feet (65 meters), and a smaller devil, approximately 16 feet (5 meters) wide, next from the back. Two more dust devils can see whirlwinds in the background.

The small, unpretentious Twister entered his own death and was absorbed by his greater colleague. “The convective vortex – Aha Dust Devils – can be quite friendly,” says Mark Lemon, a scientist for perseverance at the Institute of Cosmic Sciences in Boulder, Colorado, in A statementS “These mini-gouts wander on the surface of Mars, lifting dust as they go and lower visibility into their immediate area. If two dust devils happen on top of each other, they can either delete each other or merge, consuming the weaker.”

The dust devils were first spotted by NASA Viking’s mission in the 1970s, which filmed the arrogant phenomenon of the orbit of Mars. Two decades later, Pathfinder’s mission filmed the first image of a powder devil from the surface of Mars, one even passing above the ground. Since then, NASA’s Martian rovers have captured their fair share of dust.

Unlike Earth, the atmosphere of Mars is too thin to maintain a tornado. Instead, as the air near the surface of the planet heats up and rises to meet the cooler, shorter air, it begins to rotate. As more air joins the column, it picks up speed as well as dust and creates a rotating devil.

“If you feel bad for the little devil in our last video, it can give you a little comfort to know the greater perpetrator, who most likely has fulfilled his own end a few minutes later,” Lemon said. “Dust Devils on Mars only last about 10 minutes.”