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Arabian Dunes

June 11, 2005
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a field of low-albedo (dark) barchan sand dunes in a crater located in western Arabia Terra on Mars. Small dunes like these are common in the craters of western Arabia Terra.

11 June 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a field of low-albedo (dark) barchan sand dunes in a crater located in western Arabia Terra. Small dunes like these are common in the craters of western Arabia Terra and they are often the source of finer, dark sediment that forms windstreaks further downwind. The steepest slopes on the dunes, their slipfaces, are pointed toward the southeast (lower right), indicating that the dominant winds in this location come from the opposite direction.

Location near: 6.4°N, 346.2°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Northern Autumn

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