00:04Mars is an interesting planet with a wild landscape we're still trying to suss out with our rovers.
00:09But recently NASA's Perseverance noticed something truly extraordinary on the red planet.
00:13A wild dust devil.
00:15This was the small cyclone the rover's cameras filmed, now released by NASA.
00:19According to Mars researchers, the small twister reached around 1 and a quarter miles into the sky and was around
00:24200 feet wide.
00:25It was filmed traveling at speeds of around 12 miles per hour in an area called the Thoroughfare Ridge in
00:30the Jezero Crater.
00:32Experts say capturing phenomena like this on camera is helping them to better understand weather patterns and topography on Mars.
00:38With NASA JPL Caltech explaining about this one in particular, quote,
00:42Much weaker and generally smaller than Earth's tornadoes, dust devils are one of the mechanisms that move and redistribute dust
00:49around Mars.
00:50But this was just a dust devil, not even classified as a full-fledged tornado.
00:53Though NASA does say that tornadoes on Mars are actually a lot stronger than the ones here on Earth.
00:58Adding that at the moment, experts are currently unable to predict Martian tornadoes.
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