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  2. Dust devil - Wikipedia

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    A dust devil seen in Amboseli National Park, Kenya in 1993. A dust devil (also known regionally as a dirt devil) is a strong, well-formed, and relatively short-lived whirlwind. Its size ranges from small (18 in/half a metre wide and a few yards/metres tall) to large (more than 30 ft/10 m wide and more than half a mile/1 km tall).

  3. Dust Devil (film) - Wikipedia

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    Dust Devil is a 1992 British horror film written and directed by Richard Stanley. The film stars Robert Burke as Hitch, a mysterious man who wanders the deserts in Namibia and is wanted by the police in connection with the death of a woman whose blood was used in a supernatural ceremony.

  4. Whirlwind - Wikipedia

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    A whirlwind A dust devil at school ground Whirlwind, 61 km northeast of Broome, Western Australia. A whirlwind is a phenomenon in which a vortex of wind (a vertically oriented rotating column of air) forms due to instabilities and turbulence created by heating and flow gradients.

  5. Martian dust devils - Wikipedia

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    A dust devil captured by the Curiosity rover in 2020 Martian dust devils are convective atmospheric vortices that occur on the surface of Mars . They were discovered from data reported by NASA 's Viking probes , and have been photographed by orbiting satellites and surface rovers in subsequent missions.

  6. Cyclone - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; Iñupiatun; ... Dust devils are usually harmless, but can on rare occasions grow large enough to pose a threat to both people and property. [63]

  7. Tornado - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; Interlingua; Interlingue; ... A dust devil (also known as a whirlwind) resembles a tornado in that it is a vertical swirling column of air. However ...

  8. Dust devil (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Martian dust devils, which took place on Mars rather than Earth; Tri-City Dust Devils, an American minor-league baseball team in Pasco, Washington; Dust Devil, a member of the Blasters in the DC Comics universe; Dust Devil, Australian musician and composer of the original theme music for the Cartoon Network programming block Adult Swim

  9. Talk:Dust devil - Wikipedia

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    If whirlwind = dust devil - dust, it doen't need its own page. 70.113.4.133 02:19, 11 July 2007 (UTC) [ reply ] Whirlwind is a generic term for the spectrum of whirls or vortices in the atmosphere, or in some usage specifically refers to a small whirl induced by strong winds interacting with a rough surface. [2]