Movie Clip Shows Whirlwinds Carrying Dust on Mars

NASA/JPL ^ | 4/22/05 | cabojoe

[cabojoe]

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is taking movies of dust devils -- whirlwinds carrying dust -- scooting across a plain on Mars.

[cabojoe]

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050421a.html There are 4 movies available. The last one is probably the best.

[Crazieman]

I saw these not long ago - its freaking cool!

[Talking_Mouse]

thanks -- that is so cool

[SkyPilot]

Neat.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Very cool.

[mewzilla]

Thanks for the link! All that's missing is Taz :)

[Clara Lou]

When I go to the JPL page, there are only GIF files there, no video files-- even the links under "movie clip" are GIFs. Why would that be? Heavy traffic?

[Hunble]

Those are animated GIF files.

[wildehunt]

Taz meets Marvin

[6SJ7]

Amazing. Over 1 year on the planet and the rovers are still on the job!

[Clara Lou]

Thanks for the info about animated gif files. I didn't know they existed, and my computer didn't either, apparently, because they rendered as a still-GIF. I'll try again.

[RazzPutin]

Here is the explanation: http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050321electridevils.htm