- The rover collected data on the dust devil in multiple ways.
- In the Nature publication, researchers describe the dust devils as “convective vortices loaded with dust” and are “common at the surface of Mars, particularly at Jezero crater, the landing site of the Perseverance rover.”
- The scientists noted that increasing the knowledge about “dust lifting and atmospheric transport” is vital to simulate the dust pattern correctly and to be able to predict dust storms.
- It is also important “for future space exploration as grain impacts are implicated in the degradation of hardware on the surface of Mars.”
