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August of Wind: Rare Mars Dust Devil Footage Released

Posted by michael on from the punny-submissions-have-high-acceptance-rates dept.

astrobio writes "Very rare picture released today from Mars Orbital Camera: the image actually captured a dust devil in the act of creating a streak as it climbed an embankment out of a crater. See panorama, larger image here, and in context. Apparently the University of Arizona has a study called Project Matador which is supposed to tornado-chase on Earth, so that Mars-instruments can be hardened against dust devils. Dorothy, it isn't Kansas."

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  1. enough wind for that? by NiGHTSFTP · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not to mention dont tornadoes need drastic pressure changes to be conceived?

    http://whyfiles.org/013tornado/tornado_main3.htm l

    Oh... DUST DEVIL, my bad. Truly, this is some sort of landmark. Most pointless story ever? Quite possibly.

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