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Photo of the Day... This cool image of a Red Planet twister was taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on February 16 of this year. What a totally awesome picture...though I doubt someone living in Indiana or Kentucky right now would appreciate this snapshot as much.

It's amazing how beautiful Mother Nature can be when there's no human presence around to cause a cool whirlwind phenomenon like the one in this photo to become something deadly and tragic (though due to its weaker gravity and thinner atmosphere, Mars generates twisters that are a lot less potent than the ones here are Earth). Just sayin'.


NASA / JPL - Caltech / Univ. of Arizona