Perseverance rover captures Martian dust devil traveling at 12 mph!

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a dust devil on Mars traveling at 12 miles per hour (17 kph) on Aug. 30, 2023 about 2.5 miles away. “The video, which was sped up 20 times, is composed of 21 frames taken four seconds apart,“ according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The dust devil was in a region called “Thorofare Ridge.“ Credit: | footage courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta () Music: Alien Invasion by JH Coleman / courtesy of