"a dust devil scooting across a plain inside Gusev Crater on Mars as seen from the NASA rover Spirit's hillside vantage point during the rover's 456th martian day, or sol (April 15, 2005)" (browse resolution)

What Bob Dylan wrote and sang in 1965, on the album Bringing It All Back Home, in the song Subterranean Homesick Blues:

You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

has now been verified in this latest set of images from the planet Mars, brought to you by the folks at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), who have thoughtfully sent a robot to Earth's nearest neighbor in space, which has, for its part, now sent to Earth pictures showing which way the wind is blowing on the Red Planet.

It took several billion dollars of U.S. taxpayer money, the coordinated efforts of thousands of scientists, engineers, and others, even probably some professional meteorologists, but right now, using these images, finally, still, and again, "you don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows."

To see for yourself, click here