In the Mojave Desert, the sun beats down on the ground and makes pockets of low pressure. Cool air rushes into these areas, where it warms and rises, creating vortices that pick up dust. These types ...

Many videos have gone viral across the internet, showing dust devils spinning up out of nowhere and causing havoc to nearby people and property. One such video was submitted to KWTX out of Nolanville, ...

By tracking how fast the dust devils moved, the researchers found wind speeds of up to 44 m/s, or 158 km/h. This is faster than we've ever measured with rovers on the ground—though it's worth noting ...

This is the dramatic moment a dust devil tornado was seen spinning across a cassava farm. Footage captured by Suphasit ...

A large, whirling dust devil caught one Iowa man's attention in May. Matt Woods was driving down a gravel road in Boone County when he spotted the dirt-filled funnel whipping across a farm field. He ...

A video caught the moment a dust devil spiraled into the air at a California youth football game, sending debris flying and people running. The video posted on TikTok shows what’s known as a dust ...

A group of horses in Utah looked unfazed in a viral video showing a massive dust devil swirling behind them. Video footage from the event shows the horses at the ranch in Eagle Mountain completely ...

An Iowa man captured video this week of a large dust devil that whipped up in the middle of Gowrie. KCCI Chief Meteorologist Jason Sydejko called the dust devil "incredibly defined," as it spun for ...

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This large dust devil in the center consumed a smaller nearby dust devil on Mars in January. Future human visitors to Mars will have to deal with an unfriendly planet. It’s dusty. It’s windy.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - It’s been hot and dry lately and that’s the perfect recipe for dust devils to form. We’ve been receiving many of your pictures and videos of dust devils so far this summer, ...

It confirms that although dust devils are found all over Mars, even on its towering volcanoes, lots are swept up from certain "source regions." For example, many were clustered in Amazonis Planitia ...