NASA shares footage of 16 metre wide 'dust devil' spinning on the martian surface

National Aeronautical and ncy (NASA), on September 13, shared foot which featured a ‘dust devil’ on planet Mars. Captured by ‘Curiosity’ rover, brief clip showed ‘dust devil’ spinning across Martian landscape. Along with video, ncy wrote that dust devil, which is a columnar vortex of wind, was spotted by rover as it continued to operate in a region which is currently in its ‘windy season.'

Shared on Instagram, video is an animation of frames that show spinning columnar of wind aka dust devil. In clip, dust devil appears to be passing through “small hills just above Curiosity's present location on Mount Sharp, a peak within Gale Crater”. Describing dust devil, NASA wrote that it was half a kilometre away from curiosity when shot on September 9 and is estimated to be 16 feet wide. “ dust plume disappears past top of frame, so an exact height can't be kwn, but it's estimated to be at least 164 feet (50 meters) tall," NASA ded.

'Looks like West Texas' 

animated clip has left internet intrigued with clip racking over 2,738,642 views in just a few hours. It also gave opportunity to curious netizens to flood ir questions. A user asks, "Is re life on Mars?" while ar wrote, "Doesn't this prove re's air on mars?". Yet ar joked, "Looks like West Texas, only 42.9 million miles away" " So how old is camera filming in black and white moon filter?" re ar comment. 

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Separately, NASA shared a rare photo of globular cluster NGC 1805, located near edge of Large Mllanic Cloud. Taking to its official Instagram handle, NASA shared mystic photo of tight cluster of thousands of stars located near satellite of Milky Way galaxy, captured by NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope. “In its center, thousands of stars are packed 100 to 1,000 times closer to one ar than nearest stars are to our Sun,” NASA explained in caption of post. “ striking difference in star colors is illustrated in im, which combines different s of light: blue stars, shining brightest in near-ultraviolet light, and red stars, illuminated in red and near-infrared,” it ded.