NASA rover spots 6,000-foot-tall dust devil moving across Mars

A camera on NASA’s Perserverance rover captured a dust devil more than a mile high moving across a ridge on Mars, the agency said in a news release.

The rover was near Mars’ Jezero Crater when it spotted the dust devil, moving about 2.5 miles away, on Aug. 30, 2023, NASA said in a news release. The crater was the rover’s original landing site, and is believed to have once been a lake, meaning it may have once supported microbial life.

The rover was able to capture footage of the dust devil. A camera on the rover took 21 photos, each four seconds apart, to capture the lower portion of the…