These are Star Dunes on Mars, Formed When the Wind Comes From Many Different Directions - Universe Today

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Check out these star dunes on Mars. They form where winds don't blow in a prevailing direction. Mars has lots of them because of all the impact craters.

Barchan Dunes are formed in prevailing winds. Image Credit: unknown. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=571880

. Universe Today is full of HiRISE images. HiRISE wasn’t looking for star dunes when it captured this image in 2010. It was examining a crater in Mars’ Tyrrhena Terra region, looking at the geologic aspects of possible clays detected with the MRO’sMars’s geologic diversity is stunning. The HiRISE camera does a great job of capturing that diversity, like in this image of star dunes in a crater in the Tyrrhena Terra.

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