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Wintry Dunes on Earth and Mars

Dunes on both planets occasionally get blanketed with ice and snow—except on Earth the white stuff is frozen water and on Mars it’s often frozen carbon dioxide.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Mars HiRISE imagery courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published January 31, 2023
Data acquired January 19, 2023

Sources:
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter > HiRISE
Suomi NPP > VIIRS