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Some of the more spectacular and often feared of these features are the tornado, dust devil, water spout and land spout. They may generally look similar with funnel shaped rotations, but all develop differently. Discussed in this section are the various features associated with each.
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Whirlwinds or dust devils are quite common throughout the arid and semiarid environments of Utah. All that is required to produce a dust devil is moderate heating at the surface of the earth and some horizontal component of wind.
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December 21st, 2007 by Gerhard ... New poetry from Kwela and Snailpress. ... In The Tale of the Harmattan, Tanure Ojaide adopts the persona of a homeboy minstrel who returns from distant travels to explore what modern civilization, politics, and technological development arising from oil exploration have done to his Niger...
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Spirit sees dust devils on Mars ... Spirit, operated from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has been using its navigation camera to routinely check for dust devils. It began seeing dust devils last month in individual frames from the camera.
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 22, 2005 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is taking movies of dust devils -- whirlwinds carrying dust -- scooting across a plain on Mars. ... Clips consisting of a few frames of two different dust devils are available online at JPL. These were taken on April 15 and April 18, and capture more...
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These dust-lofting whirlwinds had been expected in the area, but none had been detected in earlier Phoenix images. The Surface Stereo Imager camera on Phoenix took 29 images of the western and southwestern horizon on Sept.
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The movie results from a new way of watching for dust devils, which are whirlwinds that hoist dust from the surface into the air. Spirit began seeing dust devils in isolated images in March 2005. At first, the rover team relied on luck.
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is taking movies of dust devils -- whirlwinds carrying dust -- scooting across a plain on Mars. ... Movie Clip Shows Whirlwinds Carrying Dust on Mars...
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is taking movies of dust devils -- whirlwinds carrying dust -- scooting across a plain on Mars. ... Spirit, operated from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has been using its navigation camera to routinely check for dust devils. It began seeing dust devils last month...
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