Planet Mars: Dunes of Another World | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Planet Mars: Dunes of Another World | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

This enhanced color cutout is a part of a global scale study of Martian dunes that serves a dual purpose in furthering understanding of both climatic and sedimentary processes. These are two fundamental topics currently driving Martian science.

Image cutout is less than 1 km (under 1 mi) top to bottom and north is to the right. The spacecraft altitude was 254 km (158 mi). 

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. 

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

“For 17 years, MRO has been revealing Mars to us as no one had seen it before,” said the mission’s project scientist, Rich Zurek of JPL.

Image Acquisition date

April 27, 2009

Local Mars time

15:23

Latitude (centered)

-48.229°

Longitude (East)

334.663°

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Release Date: June 7, 2023

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