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Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by ajross on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:21PM (#26186560)
Dust falls much, much faster on Mars. The density of Mars's surface atmosphere is ~160x lower than on Earth.
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Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by mrec on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:34PM (#26186729)
Right. One "proof" advanced by Moon landing conspiracy theorists was that dust settled much faster in videos than it should if it were really in Lunar gravity.
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