Here's a dust devil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8lfJ0c7WQ8 (again, it's still images to make a video) but not because "nothing ever moves on Mars"!
Mars is constantly shifting and changing with its weather and seasons. Ice caps freeze more, and ice caps melt more, water or other liquid flows down hills when it gets warm.
More often than dust storms, a new robot comes down to land on Mars in firey rocket-landing-fueled or bouncing-ball style. Movement.
Mars is constantly hit by rocks from space that create craters and push dust up into the atmosphere.
I've never heard someone say "Nothing ever moves on Mars" because it's really not true and a total lack of imagination. Maybe people think nothing moves because we haven't sent video cameras yet? But...Mars is constantly in motion.
I think it has been done? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMntZ6_R78Q
I take a different approach and I can't say I haven't found issues (I have, many, I'm working on them).
My goal is to reach a level where there are almost none artifacts (there are a couple in that video at the start, when the shield is released and when there are many large movements of the camera due to Curiosity dangling off the parachute). As I said, I'm still working on it, and in between my other side projects, work and quarantine I've been on a less-than-ideal situation.
In time, if I pull it off, I'll post it and I guess you'll see it.
Where's the camera in that selfie? Perhaps edited out of the mosiac?
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-...
That's probably a great example of one of the benefits of these rovers running for so long. They'd never have scheduled something so non-science-oriented if they only got the few weeks they expected, but when your mission exceeds expectations by several thousand percent, you have time for such things.
> named after Namib desert in Africa
In a few hundred years, maybe these won't be deserts anymore. It will make for an interesting fact!
- The opportunity rover captured a barren scene which was named Rub Al Khali (Yes! On Mars!), named after the Rub Al Khali desert area which touches UAE, Saudi, Oman and Yemen. (1) (2)
- The video says that Mars rovers send back images (not videos) and then those images are stitched together to create videos, because "nothing ever moves on Mars". But I wonder how a Mars video will look. Maybe it will surprise us (movements due to winds).
- Mars has a lot of clay (i.e. it was once a watery planet)
- Some videos took 1,000 images to make
- There is a beautiful selfie at timestamp 6:41
- There is dune named "Namib" on Mars, shown at timestamp 9:10, named after Namib desert in Africa. (3) (4)