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Satellite view of the Nili Patera dune field on Mars in 2014
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Mapping Martian Dunes from Orbit

by David Shultz 24 March 202028 July 2022

New research shows how fast the sands shift on the Red Planet and how useful imagery from different orbiting cameras can be in studies of Mars’s dunes.

Curiosity rover explores the Bagnold Dunes in Gale Crater, Mars
Posted inEditors' Vox

Seeing Mars in a Grain of Sand

by M. G. A. Lapotre 17 October 20183 January 2023

The second phase of Curiosity’s campaign at the Bagnold Dunes brought new observations of windblown sands during Mars’s windy season.

Horizontal exposure of cyclic cross strata in the Navajo Sandstone
Posted inScience Updates

Planetary Dune Workshop Expands to Include Subaqueous Processes

by Timothy N. Titus, D. M. Rubin and G. Bryant 15 February 201828 July 2022

The Fifth International Planetary Dunes Workshop: From the Bottom of the Oceans to the Outer Limits of the Solar System; St. George, Utah, 16–19 May 2017

Posted inEditors' Vox

A Rover’s Eye View of Moving Martian Dunes

by A. Deanne Rogers and Bethany Ehlmann 21 November 20173 January 2023

A new special issue of JGR: Planets presents findings on sand motion, morphology, and mineralogy from the Curiosity rover’s traverse of the active Bagnold dune field in Gale crater.

Researchers examine images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover to see how Martian sand dunes form.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Curiosity Spies Shifting Sands on Mars

by Mark Zastrow 29 June 201728 July 2022

Images from the rover’s pioneering encounter with sand dunes on Mars constrain wind speeds required to move sand in the thin Martian atmosphere.

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