This is reported by Ukrinform with reference to Space.com.

As noted, it will help to understand how dust moves across the Martian surface.

The rover’s cameras also managed to capture the “dust devil” in the photo. Additionally, the scientists were able to use the microphone to accurately measure wind speed based on the intensity of the wind’s sound.

The rover has already detected 90 “dust devils” flying overhead, but this was the first time Perseverance managed to turn on the microphone at the time.

“With this dust devil recording, we can actually hear and count the particles hitting the rover,” said lead author Naomi Murdoch, a planetary scientist at the Advanced Aeronautics and Space Institute of the University of Toulouse (ISAE–SUPAERO) in France. of your study.

Murdoch and colleagues determined that the “dust devil” was about 25 meters long and at least 118 meters high, and was moving at a speed of 5.3 meters per second.

The results of the study were published December 13 in Nature Communications.

As Ukrinform reported, the Perseverance spacecraft was sent to Mars with the Ingenuity helicopter as part of the NASA research mission on February 18, 2021.

One of its missions is to collect rock samples on Mars, which will be taken to Earth by a special joint mission of the European Space Agency and NASA.

First photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech