Martian Dust Devil

Ice clouds in Martian arctic. Phoenix Mars Lander's telltale catches a breeze as clouds move over the landing site on Sol 103. An angry looking sky is captured in a movie clip consisting of 10 frames taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. Dust devil in action west of the lander in four frames shot about 50 seconds apart from each other on Sol 104. Mars Lander recorded the images combined into this movie of the lander's Robotic Arm enlarging and combining the two trenches informally named "Dodo" (left) and "Goldilocks." This series of six images from the Robotic Arm Camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander records the first time that the four spikes of the lander's thermal and electrical conductivity probe were inserted into Martian soil.

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Science & Technology

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• mars
• phoenix
• lander
• clouds
• dust
• devils