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A color close-up image of gullies on Mars shows dimpling near their source, implying subsurface materials sublimating in the warmer seasonal weather. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

On Mars, better it's the dust devil you know

By Phil Plait 2 years ago

Details of an image from ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter showing dust devil tracks. Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Mars: A world both familiar and alien

By Phil Plait 3 years ago

Swirls created when dust on the Martian surface is swept clean by dust devils look like hair covering a ridge. Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

A panoply of extremely cool ExoMars images taken from high above the Martian surface

By Phil Plait 3 years ago

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… But Does a Fire Tornado in Australia Spin the Other Way?

By Phil Plait 8 years ago

A fire tornado (really a fire dust devil) forms during a proscribed burn in Denver, Colorado in 2014. Credit: Thomas Rogers, from the video

A Vortex of Fire. Bonus: Tumbleweedocalypse.

By Phil Plait 8 years ago