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manned trips to Mars is a reality that NASA wants to face in the immediate future. And the surveys in which the Rover of Perseverance are essential to achieve the goal.
The idea of the North American space agency is to know as many details as possible about the red planet before sending a human to its surface.
Issues such as exact temperatures, changing weather conditions, sudden gusts of wind and, most importantly, what causes these scenarios They were discovered thanks to the presence of Perseverance and previous rovers sent by NASA.
It is in this context that the recent discovery of the Mars mission is presented, one of the most important that this recent project, which arrived on Mars in February 2021, has recorded.
These are violent whirlwinds they called “Devil’s Dust“, according to the magazine Ecoosphere.
Perseverance’s instruments, including several cameras on its structure, recorded how dust rises from the surface of Mars, specifically near the Jezero crater, which they believe has water in its depths.
The “Dust Devil” on Mars according to NASA
This wind activity was specifically captured by the MEDA weather station, an instrument developed by the Center for Astrobiology-INTA, in Madrid (Spain).
Capturing these dust-stirring wind devils accurately shows that Mars’ atmosphere is about 150 times thinner than Earth’s. Thus, this suspended dust signals the thermal properties of the red planet.
In turn, this same phenomenon helps to understand why the surface of Mars is constantly heating up and cooling down.
“We can say that we are now beginning to understand the conditions necessary to raise dust from the surface of Mars, and this is key, as the Red Planet’s dust cycle will help us better understand the global meteorology of Mars. March.” Ricardo Hueso, co-author of the survey told Ecoosfera.
They also specify that the morning winds rise much higher because they are more violent. While those at night descend much more and occur with less force.
The quoted media points out that the largest whirlpool that was captured by the instruments of the Perseverance rover, during its first 200 days of mission, covered a length of 4 square kilometers.
Source metroecuador.com