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

Posted inScience Updates

The Importance of Dunes on a Variety of Planetary Surfaces

by Timothy Titus, James Zimbelman and J. Radebaugh 14 August 20156 March 2023

The Fourth International Planetary Dunes Workshop: Integrating Models, Remote Sensing, and Field Data; Boise, Idaho, 19–22 May 2015

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