Perseverance captured imagery of the dust devil from a few miles away on Aug. 30, 2023.
"We don’t see the top of the dust devil, but the shadow it throws gives us a good indication of its height," Perseverance science team member Mark Lemmon, a planetary scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado,"Most are vertical columns," Lemmon added."If this dust devil were configured that way, its shadow would indicate it is about 1.2 miles in height.
Perseverance captured 21 images of the dust devil using one of its navigation cameras. The mission team stitched those photos together to make the new video, which was sped up by a factor of 20.
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