Dust Devil

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Dust devil on Mars. Photography by the Mars rover Spirit
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Dust devil on Mars. Photography by the Mars rover Spirit

A dust devil or whirlwind is either a large rotating updraft, anywhere from 1000 meters high or more and tens of meters in diameter, to a small vortex a few meters high.

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