More than 4,000 Martian days after NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity began exploring the surface of the red planet, the little robot caught sight some something truly stunning.
Opportunity snapped a photo of a dust devil swirling in the Meridiani Planun, the rover’s home since it landed on the planet in 2004.
“This is one of the best dust devils that we have seen in Meridiani Planum,” Ray Arvidson, Opportunity’s deputy principal investigator, confirmed to Mashable via email.
“We are lucky to have captured this one in an image!” Read more…
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