Dust devil - Wikipedia
A dust devil (also known regionally as a dirt devil) is a strong, well-formed, and relatively short-lived whirlwind. Its size ranges from small (18 in/half a metre wide and a few yards/metres tall) to large (more than 30 ft/10 m wide and more than half a mile/1 km tall).
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Dust devils are not just an earthly phenomenon. Some NASA scientists have voiced concern that when astronauts do someday land on Mars, they will have to contend with wind-propelled dust and sand. Static electricity generated by that planet’s documented giant dust devils could pose a hazard to rockets launching from the surface to return to Earth.
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2024年4月15日 · Take it from storm chaser Brian Verhoeven who filmed the entire experience as a large dust devil traveled along the historical Route 66 in western Arizona. Video footage captured by Verhoeven...
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2022年10月13日 · — A spectacular moment caught on video shows a giant swirling dust devil that formed in Jonesboro, Ark., as people around it watched in awe as it swept across a flat piece of farmland. Matt...
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2004年4月23日 · The largest dust devils can be as much as 200 meters high and 100 meters wide, and last for an hour or two, though most are much smaller and subside within minutes. On Mars, dust devils can be enormous, as much as 10 kilometers tall, and they may have a hand in martian weather, according to William Farrell, a planetary scientist at NASA's ...
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2024年10月23日 · Footage of what appeared to be a giant “ dust devil ” swirling alongside a road in Ras Al Khaimah has been shared online. Released by Storm Centre, a popular social media …
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2019年4月1日 · Dust devils (DDs) are dust-laden convective vortices driven by solar insolation. They are a common phenomenon in arid regions on Earth (e.g., Balme and Greeley, 2006; Murphy et al., 2016) and were hypothesized to exist on Mars even prior to being observed (Neubauer, 1966; Gierasch and Goody, 1973; see also Lorenz et al., 2016).
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2016年5月12日 · The dust devil is a visible manifestation of a vortex that has lifted dust and sand directly from the surface. In these vortices, warmer air from the ground travels upward in the central region, and cooler air is pulled downward both within the core and the outer regions surrounding the vortex.
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2023年7月26日 · According to the National Weather Service, dust devils are formed when hot air rises and then cools, descending back into the center of the vortex and creating a funnel-like chimney. A massive dust devil was spotted in Maricopa, AZ on Monday, July 24.