14 DAY TRIAL // This animation posted by experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, shows a very narrow, very tall twister making its way across the dust-covered Amazonis Planitia region, on our neighboring planet's northern hemisphere.
The short video clip was put together from extrapolations the JPL team made, based on photos taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument aboard the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Despite the fact that the atmosphere surrounding the Red Planet is thinner and less dense than Earth's, experts estimate the twisters or dust devils occur above dust-covered regions of Mars just as often as they do here.
This particular one was odd because it reached an altitude of about 20 kilometers (12 miles), but did not exceed 70 meters in width at any point. HiRISE snapped images of the twister on March 14, 2012.