Assertion: dust storm's atmosphere | /r/HasProperty | thin
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text: Because the martian atmosphere is thin--about 1% as dense as Earth's at sea level--only the smallest dust grains hang in the air.
text: However, were you to be on the surface during a dust storm, other than the sky darkening and a fine coating of dust settling over you, the atmosphere is so thin that you’d barely notice the wind or the scouring dust.
text: Because the atmosphere is so thin, convective heating per unit mass of atmosphere is much greater on Mars than anywhere on Earth, and Martian dust devils correspondingly tend to be much larger sizes (diameters up to several hundred meters and depths up to several kilometers).