NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, encountered 100 mud devils in its first 90 days on Mars after touchdown in February.
Small whirlwinds on Mars, referred to as vortices, aren’t unusual. They are often tens of metres large and several other kilometres excessive, with wind speeds upwards of 100 kilometres per hour. Many have been detected by different missions on Mars, such because the Curiosity rover and InSight lander.
If these vortices raise up Martian mud, they’ll type so-called mud devils – dusty columns towering into …
