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Setting the world on fire: Stunning picture of rare 'devil tornado' emerges

An astonished filmmaker has told of the moment he witnessed this rare fire tornado

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Chris Tangey had been out in Alice Springs, Australia, scouting locations for a new movie.

 

After finishing he went over to help workers at a cattle station when he was confronted by one of nature's most intimidating spectacles.

 

Just 300 metres away was a 30-metre high fire swirl which "sounded like a fighter jet", despite there being no wind in the area.

 

A fire tornado, also know as a fire devil, is caused when a column of warm, rising air comes into contact - or causes - a fire on the ground.

 

These fire whirls are known to last for around two minutes on the very rare occasions they take place.

 

But Chris found himself mesmerised by the tornado for more than 40 minutes.

 

The 52-year-old said: "The weather was perfectly still and it was about 25 degrees celsius - it was an entirely uneventful day.

 

"Then the next thing a man is yelling 'what the hell is that?' and I turned around and saw a 30-metre fire tornado.

 

"I was about 300 metres away and there was no wind but the tornado sounded just like a fighter jet. My jaw just dropped."

 

Chris, who runs Alice Springs Film and Television, in Australia, described it as a "once in ten lifetimes experience".
He added: "I've been shooting in the outback for 23 years and I have never seen anything like it. We've heard about them but they're never seen.

 

"If I had known what was about to happen then I would have happily paid $1,000 to watch it.

 

"At any time there were three different tornadoes, it just kept going and going for 40 minutes.

 

"The whole experience was staggering and the length and variety were astonishing."

 

Although they are rare, these spectacles are extremely dangerous.

 

In 1923, a fire whirl emerged during Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake and killed 38,000 people in just 15 minutes.

 

 

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A new monumental moment is approaching as the newest Martian rover closes in on its journey towards the Red Planet. Curiosity has been trekking through space since last November, and will be completing its 352-million-mile journey on August 5, 10:31 Pacific time. This Sunday, redOrbit will be bringing you live coverage of the event, nicknamed "seven minutes of terror," from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Bringing the Mars Science Laboratory safely into the Martian atmosphere, and landing Curiosity onto its surface is not a simple task. NASA has acknowledged the difficulty its engineers will be facing this Sunday, by making one of the most complicated landings in the space agency's history from over 300 million miles away.

 

MSL launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on November 26 at 10:02 a.m. eastern time from Cape Canaveral last year. Since then, it has been making its way through space at nearly 13,000 mph. During NASA's "seven minutes of terror" in trying to land the rover safely on Mars, engineers must bring the 13,000 mph spacecraft down to 1.7 mph before reaching the surface to ensure Curiosity lands in one piece. The car-sized rover will be landing beside a Martian mountain in Gale Crater to begin a two year mission of scientific work, helping to uncover whether the area has ever had a suitable environment to support life. In order to reach its landing spot, Curiosity will be flying like a wing in the upper atmosphere of Mars, instead of dropping down lie a rock and utilizing the airbag method.

 

At about seven miles above the surface of the planet, and at a velocity of 900 mph, MSL will deploy a parachute to slow down the descent even more. The spacecraft will be riding down towards the surface for about another six miles before reaching 180 mph. At this stage, curiosity will be released, and the "sky crane" method will be initiated. Mission engineers designed a "sky crane" method for the final several seconds of the flight. During this journey towards the surface, a backpack with retrorockets controlling the descent speed will lower the rover on three nylon cords just before touchdown. NASA said 76 pyrotechnic devices must fire on time during the descent to get Curiosity to the surface.

 

Rover Curiosity sends back first colour picture from the surface of the Mars, Aug 6, 2012
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