Many weather events we experience on Earth can be found on other planets too, including whirlwinds, and the Perseverance rover recently captured footage of one.
Many of the weather events we experience here on Earth can be found on other planets too, and that includes whirlwinds. Several missions have observed small whirlwinds called dust devils on Mars, and the Perseverance rover recently captured footage of one such dust devil in action as it rolled across the martian surface.
Dust devils are common on Mars due to the atmospheric conditions there. It has a thin atmosphere that is just 1% the density of the atmosphere on Earth. When the planet’s surface heats up due to the sun, but the atmosphere around it is still cool, this causes air to rise, which can then start to rotate and form a dust devil. A similar process happens on Earth too, but on Mars, these dust devils can grow large and dust storms can even become global events that blanket the entire planet.
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