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Serpent dust devil of Mars


Date: 01 March 2012
Satellite: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

A towering dust devil casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this image acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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