An intriguing photographic comparison of the surface of Mars before and after a massive dust storm caught my attention at Wired News. While our world goes all to hell, it looks like the next world over is inhospitable in its own unique way.

In a long-overdue admission of inadequacy on the part of science, a scientist from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, when asked about the Martian dust storm, stated that “We don’t understand the details.”

A quick search revealed impressive terrestrial dust storm imagery and showed that Earth has had some bad-ass dust storms of our own. How come no-one told me about this? (btw, that tiny thing in the bottom right corner is Africa!)

Semi-related: the amazing satellite photos at 300 Miles High are well worth linking to again.