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The Perseverance rover captured some pretty massive dust devils earlier today. That large one in the foreground was at least 300m high.
EDIT: corrected height estimate from 500 to 300m.
https://flic.kr/p/2qHbPLV

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmau脽

#planetaryscience #mars #mars2020 #nasa #perseverance #dustdevil

20 frame animation showing a mostly flat terrain on Mars with a couple craters and a few hills towards the horizon. Three dust devils can be seen, a large one in the foreground is moving in an lefthand arc and shows significant rotation. It also casts a shadow onto the ground.

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This is an enhanced processing of images taken by the Left Navigation Camera around noon (12:27 LMST). The full sequence lasted about 2.5 minutes. The dust devils were a lot fainter in the raw images.
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/NLG_1398_0791047032_270ECM_N0650802NCAM00524_00_2I4J

h/t to @Landru79 who mentioned these images to me.
https://mastodon.social/@Landru79@astrodon.social/113889834368075969