On the west (left) side of this image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, fairly textbook-looking barchan sand dunes sit atop the bedrock. Barchan dunes pointing in the opposite direction are ...

This observation shows a small sand dune field on the floor of Newton Crater, an approximately 300-kilometer wide crater in the Southern Hemisphere of Mars. The image shows both dome and barchan dunes ...

Nili Patera's dunes lie on top of a lava bed and show the prevailing direction of the wind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

In this image many sand dunes are visible. They have an elongated crescent form and are called “barchan dunes.” They are formed by the continuous action of the wind blowing in the same direction. The ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera captured this intriguing image of a field of stunning dunes known as barchan dunes, as reported first by Universe Today. These dunes were captured in ...

Barchan dune field maps on Mars produced by machine learning, with inferred dune migration and wind directions. Credit: Geophysical Research Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1029/2022GL102610 Mars is one of ...

Barchan dunes are iconic crescent‐shaped landforms that arise in environments dominated by unidirectional winds and limited sand availability. Their evolution is determined by a complex interplay ...