Perseverance released footage of a dust demon or whirlwind whirling in the distance.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, FLORIDA – Robot explorer Perseverance The US Space Agency (NASA) is exploring the planet Mars. Although it has not found any evidence of extraterrestrial life, NASA’s Perseverance rover robot has captured a ‘demon’ on Mars.
Perseverance on Tuesday (16/3) released footage of dust devils swirling in the distance. This phenomenon was captured by one of the Perseverance rover cameras. This weather phenomenon occurs on Earth and Mars, and can help us better understand the Martian climate.
While reviewing footage taken by Perseverance, NASA engineers caught a glimpse of a dust devil in the background.
The video was released through the account Twitter Perseverance, but the US space agency has not provided further details on the wind speed of this particular dust devil.
In the video, a whirlwind can be seen in the background with Perseverance’s robotic arm in the center of the frame.
Nick Schneider, a professor of planetary science at the University of Colorado, said that dust devils have been observed on Mars all the time.
“There was a time when astronomers studied Mars through telescopes and they could actually see changes in patterns that they thought were vegetation,” Schneider said. Inverse, Friday (19/3).
“But actually it’s just dust blown by the wind,” he added.
The second animation was created by hobbyist Simeon Schmauss, an engineering student in Germany, who saw what he believed to be a dust devil in footage taken by one of the Perseverance cameras released on the mission website.
Schmauss placed the raw footage on the Martian terrain in three dimensions upon release, where he saw the dust devils in action.
“I do this in my spare time, just for fun and I happen to find a little dust devil moving around in the picture,” said Schmauss.
Dust devils occur on Mars and Earth in much the same way. As the ground gets hotter than the air above it, the air is drawn into narrow columns, with lumps of hot air moving through the cooler air, creating upward currents.
The cooler air then sinks to create vertical circulation, forming a funnel. If this air funnel meets a horizontal gust of wind, dust devils start swirling around the surface, picking up more dust as they fly.
Schneider said that although the Martian atmosphere is composed of different materials from Earth’s, the two planets experience the same phenomenon at different temperatures.
However, the Martian dust devils tend to be much larger than those we experience on Earth. They can reach up to 12 miles above the Martian surface, and make trails hundreds of miles wide.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, FLORIDA – Robot explorer Perseverance The US Space Agency (NASA) is exploring the planet Mars. Although it has not found any evidence of extraterrestrial life, NASA’s Perseverance rover robot has captured a ‘demon’ on Mars.
Perseverance on Tuesday (16/3) released footage of dust devils swirling in the distance. This phenomenon was captured by one of the Perseverance rover cameras. This weather phenomenon occurs on Earth and Mars, and can help us better understand the Martian climate.
While reviewing footage taken by Perseverance, NASA engineers caught a glimpse of a dust devil in the background.
The video was released through the account Twitter Perseverance, but the US space agency has not provided further details on the wind speed of this particular dust devil.
In the video, a whirlwind can be seen in the background with Perseverance’s robotic arm in the center of the frame.
Nick Schneider, a professor of planetary science at the University of Colorado, said that dust devils have been observed on Mars all the time.
“There was a time when astronomers studied Mars through telescopes and they could actually see changes in patterns that they thought were vegetation,” Schneider said. Inverse, Friday (19/3).
“But actually it’s just dust blown by the wind,” he added.
The second animation was created by hobbyist Simeon Schmauss, an engineering student in Germany, who saw what he believed to be a dust devil in footage taken by one of the Perseverance cameras released on the mission website.
Schmauss placed the raw footage on the Martian terrain in three dimensions upon release, where he saw the dust devils in action.
“I do this in my spare time, just for fun and I happen to find a little dust devil moving around in the picture,” said Schmauss.
Dust devils occur on Mars and Earth in much the same way. As the ground gets hotter than the air above it, the air is drawn into narrow columns, with lumps of hot air moving through the cooler air, creating upward currents.
The cooler air then sinks to create vertical circulation, forming a funnel. If this air funnel meets a horizontal gust of wind, dust devils start swirling around the surface, picking up more dust as they fly.
Schneider said that although Mars’ atmosphere is composed of different materials from Earth’s, the two planets experience the same phenomenon at different temperatures.
However, the Martian dust devils tend to be much larger than those we experience on Earth. They can reach up to 12 miles above the Martian surface, and make trails hundreds of miles wide.
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