See Dust Devils Racing Across Mars!

I came across a 'movie' taken by NASA’s Rover, Spirit, of ‘dust devils’ racing across the barren surface of Mars. Looked fascinating, more so when one gets to see actual activity on the so called ‘dead’ planet!

Mars is a very windy place, so windy, in fact, that bright, oxidized Martian soil is being scoured away by Martian winds and dust devils to reveal darker, sub-surface soil with the end result of making the whole planet warmer. Mars is experiencing its own brand of climate change. Is this related to planet earth’s greenhouse gas driven climate change? No. Is understanding the process important for our understanding of how planets evolve and change over time? Absolutely.

Although NASA released the dust devil movie on Aug. 19, Spirit actually photographed them during its 543rd day (July 13, 2005) exploring Mars. The images have not been processed to enhance the contrast of the dust devils.

Here it is...


NASA's Mars rover Spirit catches a bevy of dust devils race across Gusev Crater.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell.

Cheers!

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thats pretty cool.. mike, you are obsessed with the fact that life on mars may possibly exist, even if its the smallest little form of bacteria! Im sure that there are millions of other planets in our universe that have life a hell of a lot more interesting things then whats on mars!

[edit on 28-4-2007 by hikix]

mikesingh --

I don't think too many scientists (not even in NASA) refer to Mars as a "dead planet" anymore. If they were so sure it was a dead planet, they wouldn't bother spending hundreds of millions of dollars in spaceprobes to look for the signs of life, or at least the potential to support life.

Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
mikesingh --

I don't think too many scientists (not even in NASA) refer to Mars as a "dead planet" anymore. If they were so sure it was a dead planet, they wouldn't bother spending hundreds of millions of dollars in spaceprobes to look for the signs of life, or at least the potential to support life.

Heck, Soylent, if NASA is that interested in finding life past or present on Mars, then why are these guys dishing out black and white photographs of possible 'vegetation' on Mars? Why not in colour? What are they trying to hide? Why do they send billion dollar probes for getting black & white photographs? Here are some examples:



Courtesy of NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems.

Why aren't these images in colour? There are hundreds of these images - BUT ALL IN BLACK & WHITE. Why? Because they want to hide the truth. And we're the darn suckers!

Here's to mud in NASA's eye!

Cheers!