A well-defined dust devil crosses in front of the camera in this animation of a series of images acquired by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit in May, 2005. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS)
That is REALLY cool (I’ve been watching it for a few minutes now, contemplating that this is from another planet, the technology, the millions of years that this has been happening and now we get to see it, the similarities and differences between the two planets, etc.
I was doing some studies in New Mexico years ago and had a dot-matrix printer with a stack of the z-fold paper/ perforated paper behind it. A dust devil came right through me and my set-up. I covered up the laptop and other gear the best I could. After it was gone I watched it move away with about 20’ of paper flapping around inside of it!
Ya know - the more I look at your animation, I think I caught a glimpse of a desert pod racer creating one of those plumes!
A well-defined dust devil crosses in front of the camera in this animation of a series of images acquired by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit in May, 2005. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS)
Clouds above the rim of "Endurance Crater" in this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. These clouds occur in a region of strong vertical shear. The cloud particles (ice in this martian case) fall out, and get dragged along away from the location where they originally condensed, forming characteristic streamers. Opportunity took this picture with its navigation camera during the rover's 269th martian day (Oct. 26, 2004). (NASA/JPL)