Dunes being buried

Dunes. Just dunes.

February 1, 2013

Rainbow dunes on Mars

February 10, 2013

Published by lfenton at February 3, 2013

Tags

aeolian
gully
stabilized

A piece of Mars: Most dunes on Mars are the freshest, youngest features around. Not so here. The bright dunes near the bottom here are slowly being buried by debris coming down from the gullies on the slope, coming from the upper left. (HiRISE ESP_029483_1470, NASA/JPL/University of Arizona).