A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) high was captured winding its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14, 2012 by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Despite its height, the plume is little more than three-quarters of a football field wide (70 yards, or 70 meters). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA
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2 posted on
04/05/2012 7:32:17 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Think logically. Act normally.................)
To: Red Badger
Our little biosphere is quite special.
3 posted on
04/05/2012 7:36:30 AM PDT by
allmost
To: Red Badger
Dang! We are causing global warming there to!
5 posted on
04/05/2012 7:41:28 AM PDT by
US_MilitaryRules
(Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
To: Red Badger
Caused by Climate Change. Bush's fault.
6 posted on
04/05/2012 7:41:56 AM PDT by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Red Badger
This is fake. The dust devil doesn’t have any grocery bags, picnic plates or styrofoam cups in it.
7 posted on
04/05/2012 7:47:24 AM PDT by
lurk
To: Red Badger
Why am I suspicious of this?
A dust devil has to be kicked up by atmospheric activity. The particles in the atmosphere must have sufficient mass and velocity to impart some or all of their momentum to the dust. But the atmosphere of Mars at its surface would appear to be about one 1700th of the mass of ours by volume and so seem insufficient in mass to me to kick anything up.
ML/NJ
8 posted on
04/05/2012 7:48:38 AM PDT by
ml/nj
To: Red Badger
And not a mobile home on the planet. It just seems such a waste.
10 posted on
04/05/2012 7:54:49 AM PDT by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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Who let the Martian dust devil out? And it wasn't 12 miles high the last time I checked, so what did it eat?!?
12 posted on
04/05/2012 8:00:04 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(Read "Radical Son" by David Horowitz to understand the Left.)
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14 posted on
04/05/2012 8:02:54 AM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit ;-{)
To: Red Badger
I would have thought it would be too cold for dust devils
Remember a hot August day last year when dust devils
crossed and recrossed a raked hay field.Those windrows
standing up were a hoot to look at.
My `ol lady was kinda put out having to re-rake tho
18 posted on
04/05/2012 8:19:37 AM PDT by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
To: Red Badger
I sat in a west Oklahoma Pizza Hut watching what I then thought was a large dust devil dance around a field. Guess I was wrong; it didn’t come anywhere close to 12 miles high. Gak.
21 posted on
04/05/2012 8:51:15 AM PDT by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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