dust devil
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Magistrate Robert Webster agreed with the defence and found that the incident happened due to a dust devil - an upward spiralling vortex of air and debris - that was "unforeseen and unforeseeable".
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2025
Just last week, scientists revealed that InSight scored another first, capturing a Martian dust devil not just in pictures, but sound.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2022
Sound returns for another couple of seconds as the trailing wall of the dust devil spins over the rover again.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022
“Maybe we’ll get a nice thick dust devil and we’ll have enough power to keep going for a while,” Daubar says.
From Scientific American • May 24, 2022
The dust devil twists on the ground, careening toward Fly.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
