A particulate-filled whirlwind swept right over the Perseverance rover, providing some fortuitous scientific data.
the dust devil in questiontoday in Nature Communications.
“The SuperCam microphone was selected to be onboard Perseverance with geological studies in mind ,” said Naomi Murdoch, a planetary scientist at ISAE-SUPAERO and the study’s lead author, in an email to Gizmodo. But, Murdoch added, “we were absolutely convinced of the value of acoustic data for atmospheric science investigations.”Jezero Crater—thought to be a dried-up former—for the better part of two years, in hopes of finding signs of fossilized microbial life.
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