April 7, 2012

Dust devil on Mars (Image NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA)

On March 14 the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) discovered another dust devil really huge. Astronomers determined its height examining the photographs transmitted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and established that it’s about 20 km (about 12 miles) high with a column diameter of about 70 meters (about 75 yards). That’s the size of a large tornado on Earth!