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The Sound of a Dust Devil on Mars

Dust devils happen when we have a very large temperature gradient between the ground and the air. Conditions seem to be particularly good in Cesaro crater from what I've read. We calculated that we had a one in two hundred chance of recording a dust devil with our microphone. And so let's listen to it again. First, I can't really hear very much, but then you get this moment when it sounds like the recording I get with my microphone outdoors,. If the wind is blowing across the top and sort of bashing against the membrane of the microphone.

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