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Credit & Copyright: Brad Hannon
Explanation:
Could there be a tornado inside another tornado?
In general, no.
OK, but could there be a tornado inside a wider
dust devil?
No again, for one
reason because tornados comes down from the sky,
but dust devils
rise up from the ground.
What is pictured is a
landspout, an unusual type of tornado known to occur
on the edge of a violent
thunderstorm.
The featured landspout was imaged and identified in
Kansas,
USA,
in June 2019 by an experienced storm chaser.
The real
tornado
is in the center, and the outer sheath was possibly created by
large
dust particles thrown out from the central tornado.
So far, the only planet known to create tornados is
Earth, although
tornado-like activity
has been found on the Sun and
dust devils are common on
Mars.
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