{"id":15561,"date":"2023-10-05T19:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=15561"},"modified":"2023-10-05T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:25:08","slug":"see-the-two-kilometer-tall-dust-devil-that-nasas-mars-rover-approached-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=15561","title":{"rendered":"See the two-kilometer-tall &#8216;dust devil&#8217; that NASA&#8217;s Mars rover approached (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A small-scale tornado, which raises sand or dust in meteorological international terminology is called a &#8220;dust devil&#8221;. Such dust devils are also created on Mars and have been recorded by the fleet of satellites orbiting the Red Planet. NASA&#8217;s Perseverance rover on Mars captured a dust devil on August 30, and NASA has decided to release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/mars-2020-perseverance\/perseverance-rover\/nasas-perseverance-captures-dust-filled-martian-whirlwind\/\">the visuals<\/a> now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASA experts estimated that the tornado was located about four kilometers from Perseverance and was moving at a speed of 19 kilometers per hour while having a diameter of 60 meters and a height of two kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Perseverance rover captures Martian dust devil traveling at 12 mph!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YIuCEWQUJoM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dust devils are considered by experts to be an important part of the Martian dust cycle, the mechanism that transports, lifts and generally moves the planet&#8217;s dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small-scale tornado, which raises sand or dust in meteorological international terminology is called a &#8220;dust devil&#8221;. Such dust devils are also created on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1168,2960],"tags":[3878,805,4740,3186],"class_list":["post-15561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","category-technology","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-nasas-mars-rover","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15563,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561\/revisions\/15563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}