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Dust devils in Arabia Terra - Perseverance NavCam - Sol 1398

This enhanced processing of Navcam Left images shows several dust devils moving across the floor of Arabia Terra, just outside of Jezero crater.

The largest dust devil in the foreground is at least 300 meters high (328 yards).

The largest dust devil starts at the edge of the crater which is located 1 kilometer east of the rover's location (~5/8 mile)

For scale the crater floor viewed from this direction is close to 220 meters wide (722 ft)

The original sequence lasts about 2.5 minutes, and was taken around 12:26 local mean solar time.

This is a reduced resolution version of the animation by Simeon Schmauß.

You can find the full resolution (wider) MP4 version on Flickr using this link

In this GIF, I see three dust devils, it looks like there are at least 4 in the full size (uncropped) version on Flickr.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

Note - Accidentally posted to the wrong group...

Annotated screen capture of the ESA mission map (with scale bar)

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[–] SpecialSetOfSieves 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pssst... this is the Curiosity instance!

[–] paulhammond5155 3 points 1 day ago

Ooops....

I'll repost it in M20 😱

[–] paulhammond5155 3 points 1 day ago

Annotated screen capture of the ESA mission map (with scale bar)