Tag Archives: dunes

THEMIS: Crater dunes

Posted on October 22, 2014 by rburnham

THEMIS Image of the Day, October 22, 2014. A field of sand dunes is located on the floor of this unnamed crater in Terra Cimmeria. Several gullies dissect the northern rim of the crater. More THEMIS Images of the Day … Continue reading →

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HiRISE: Dome & barchan dunes in Newton Crater

Posted on October 7, 2014 by rburnham

This observation shows a small sand dune field on the floor of Newton Crater, an approximately 300 kilometer (130 mile) wide crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. The image shows both dome and barchan dunes. Both these types of … Continue reading →

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HiRISE: Dune and ripple migration in Nili Patera

Posted on October 3, 2014 by rburnham

Nili Patera is a region on Mars in which dunes and ripples are moving rapidly. HiRISE continues to monitor this area every couple of months to see changes over seasonal and annual time scales. Here we see obvious activity over … Continue reading →

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HiRISE: The dunes meet the plains

Posted on September 27, 2014 by rburnham

The dunes meet the plains northwest of Herschel Crater. Beautiful Mars series.

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HiRISE: Under the cliff

Posted on September 4, 2014 by rburnham

Under the cliff. Beautiful Mars series.

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THEMIS: Dunes

Posted on September 3, 2014 by rburnham

THEMIS Image of the Day, September 3, 2014. Today’s VIS image shows sand dunes on the floor of an unnamed crater in Arabia Terra. More THEMIS Images of the Day by geological topic.