Wednesday, April 11, 2012

An image of a Red Planet twister, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on March 14, 2012.
NASA / JPL - Caltech / Univ. of Arizona

Photos of the Day... Check out this cool dust devil that was spotted on the surface of the Red Planet by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on March 14 of this year. This twister is 12 miles-high and 230 feet-wide...dwarfing the whirlwind (shown below) that was also photographed by MRO on February 16 of this year. Even though I already blogged about the February dust devil last month, just thought I'd repost the image here to compare it to the size of the behemoth featured above. That is all.

An image of an earlier Red Planet twister, taken by NASA's MRO on February 16, 2012.
NASA / JPL - Caltech / Univ. of Arizona
Posted by Richard Par at 10:33 AM
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