NASA The robot of the US space agency has also provided photographs net qu’uniques …
This is in the right place at the right time. Opportunity, the oldest Martian rover NASA has photographed last Thursday on Mars a column of sand and dust formed by a whirlwind.
The micro-tornado occurred in the bottom of Endeavour, a huge crater 22 kilometers in diameter. And while the craft was initially explore another area, the rocks and the inclination of the flanks of craters ultimately did not allow the rover to move as planned, reports Le Figaro .
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finally Posted by chance atop Endeavour, Opportunity was then able to provide high quality pictures of the tornado with a unique shooting angle. It is even possible to distinguish the shadow of the sand column that is emerging on the ground.
Other rovers the US space agency, as Spirit or Viking, had observed similar phenomena from the Martian surface, but never in this way
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