5.6K views · 122 reactions | Dust Devils!! What are they and how do they form explained  The National Weather Desk | Chris Suchan Meteorologist | Facebook

Curious, indeed! Our pal Curiosity recently captured "several whirlwinds carrying Martian dust across Gale Crater" on Mars, according to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. These dust devils rise up when sunshine warms the ground, prompting convective rising of air. In the video below, timing is accelerated and contrast has been modified to make frame-to-frame changes easier to see, NASA JPL explained online. | Space.com

NASA's Perseverance rover's SuperCam microphone captured sounds from electrical discharges from dust devils on Mars in 2024. The audio is set against recent footage captured of dust devils churning on the Red Planet snapped in Sept. 2025. Read more👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/yMhDpU Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ISAE-Supaero| edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta | Space.com

6.3K views · 92 reactions | Watching an amazing dust devil (sand whirl) from the pool. #NoBarriers15Years #NoBarriers #JoelTravel #DeafNation #Deaf #DeafWorld #Opuwo #Namibia #Africa #dustdevil #sandwhirl | Joel Barish | Facebook

26K views · 406 reactions | WOW! Check out this amazing Dust Devil at Cedar Lake near Faribault, MN this afternoon. Beautiful enough at the ground... then you look up! Credit: Tim Arett Dust devils will form by the heat differential from hot ground to cooler air above creates a sharp upward motion. That upward motion can begin to rotate as it's 'stretched' and intensify the wind. | Chris Kuball Meteorologist | Facebook