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>>16369308
that's an image of martian dust clouds

>The sustained action of the surface winds and convection results in large amounts of the smallest dust particles, ranging from a few microns up to millimeter-sized, being lifted to the atmosphere thus causing an increase in atmospheric turbidity . On Mars, obscuration due to aerosol particles can be detected almost every day. Even in on occasions when major dust storms have been absent for weeks there is always a background level of dust in the the atmosphere which for an observer on the surface appears as an almost permanent haze. The fact that incoming and reflected solar radiation is absorbed by the suspended dust provides a direct mechanism for heating the atmosphere.

Basically, this dust is terrible. Will get into literally everything.
But you could hypothetically use dust to help create an artifical magnetosphere to aid in rebuilding up an atmosphere.

>The sand looks like an ocean in this contrasted infrared-color image of the Medusa Fossae Formation, which is believed to be the largest source of dust on Mars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DhvAjJFfz0

>tfw a freak dust storm kills your rover
:(