{"id":194312,"date":"2025-10-12T05:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194312\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T05:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:42:12","slug":"winds-on-mars-can-reach-speeds-of-100-miles-per-hour-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194312\/","title":{"rendered":"Winds on Mars can reach speeds of 100 miles per hour, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new study led by Dr. Valentin Bickel from the Centre for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern looked at images from cameras on board two orbiters: European Space Agency&#8217;s (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and ESA orbiter Mars Express.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team looked at images for around 300 of the identified dust devils in order to measure their directions of movement and speed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The results, published in the journal Science Advances, show that the dust devils and the wins surrounding them can reach speeds of about 100 miles per hour across the entire planet, which is much more than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The high wind speed affects the amount of dust produced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These strong, straight-line winds are very likely to bring a considerable amount of dust into the Martian atmosphere \u2013 much more than previously assumed,&#8221; says Bickel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new study led by Dr. Valentin Bickel from the Centre for Space and Habitability at the University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-194312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}