![Dust devil in the Amazonis Planitia region of Mars, imaged by Mars Global Surveyor on April 10, …[Credits : NASA/JPL/Main Space Science Systems]](http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/93/76693-004-3231B4D6.jpg)
Dust devil in the Amazonis Planitia region of Mars, imaged by Mars Global Surveyor on April 10, 2001. The camera view is essentially straight down, with north at the top and sunlight coming from the west. Visible in the scene is the faint track left by the dust devil as it moved from west to east; the light-coloured, foreshortened dust column itself; and part of the column’s long shadow being cast to the east. From its total shadow length, the dust devil was estimated to be a little more than a kilometre (0.62 mi) in height.
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