NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a giant dust devil devouring a smaller storm swirling close behind it on the rim of Jezero Crater. Martian dust devils are spinning columns of warm air that ...

"If two dust devils happen upon each other, they can either obliterate one another or merge, with the stronger one consuming the weaker." NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a giant dust devil ...

"Dust devils play a significant role in Martian weather patterns," Katie Stack Morgan, a project scientist for the Perseverance rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California ...

"Convective vortices — aka dust devils — can be rather fiendish," Mark Lemmon, a Perseverance senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said in a NASA ...

But one thing's for sure about these freakish alien dust devils: You're definitely not in Kansas if you see them. More like 140 million miles over the rainbow in space. Though scientists have long ...

Dust devils on Mars share similarities with those on Earth, but behave quite differently. On the Red Planet , dust devils form when the sun heats the surface, causing the air to rise and spiral.

In a short video released Thursday by NASA, the two dust devils can be seen swirling and spinning on the rim of a feature known as the Jezero Crater. The landmark is famous as being the landing ...

Two other dust devils can also be seen in the background at left and center. Perseverance recorded the scene Jan. 25 as it explored the western rim of Mars' Jezero Crater at a location called ...

(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI via SWNS) Mark Lemmon, a Perseverance scientist at the Space Science Institute, said: "Convective vortices — aka dust devils — can be rather fiendish. "These mini ...