Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken incredible images of another giant dust devil, similar to one photographed in February, but much larger. This one, in Amazonis Planitia, is about 20 kilometres (12 miles) tall! That’s also a lot bigger than typical dust devils on Earth, more like the size of a terrestrial tornado.
There are also two animations, here and here.
Paul Scott Anderson is a freelance space writer with a life-long passion for space exploration and astronomy. He currently writes for AmericaSpace, Universe Today and Examiner.com. His own blog The Meridiani Journal is a chronicle of planetary exploration.
