Jakarta –
The Mars rover robotics vehicle, Perseverance, captured the wind phenomenon tornado the planet Mars on August 30 last. This is not an ordinary tornado, but rather a terrifying giant size.
This phenomenon was captured on video by Navcams, a space navigation camera on Perseverance, a space probe with a mission to search for signs of ancient life on Mars and collect samples to be delivered to Earth.
Scientists estimate that the tornado appeared at a location called Thorofare Ridge, about 4 kilometers from where Perseverance is located, with an area of 60 meters and a height of 2 kilometers.
“We didn’t see the top of the tornado, but the shadow it cast gives us a good indication of its height,” explained Mark Lemmon, a planetary scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, as reported detikINET from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory press release, Tuesday (03/10/2023)
Tornadoes themselves usually form when the ground is heated by the Sun, which makes the air rise. This rising air then creates low pressure in the atmosphere. The air rushes to fill the low pressure so that a tornado forms.
Previously, in 2012, a tornado was also caught on Mars with a height of up to 20 km and was labeled the largest in our Solar System.
This new discovery reminds us of how terrible it would be if we, humans, were actually going to live there. Conditions on Planet Mars could be very terrible, far from comfortable life on Earth.
*This article was written by Khalisha Fitri, a participant in the Merdeka Campus Certified Internship Program at detikcom.
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2023-10-03 15:00:25
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