HomeSpace NewsStriking dunes on Mars boast a complex formation history

Striking dunes on Mars boast a complex formation history

Scientists are tracing the movement of dust over Martian eons using a high-definition camera from orbit.

A Twitter account for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Experiment, at work at Mars since 2006, recently posted a picture of “barchan dunes” formed by the Red Planet’s winds pushing continuously in a single direction.

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