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Exploring the Sandy Province of Herschel Crater
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This view from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the downwind stretches of a sand sheet in central part of the much larger Herschel Crater. This sandy province began kilometers upwind in a string of barchan sand dunes. As the north-to-south blowing wind weakened downwind, it could no longer fashion the sand into dunes but rather into amorphously-shaped sand sheets.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineExploring the Sandy Province of Herschel Crater. NASA/JPL, 2017-09-04. Public domain. ID: PIA21933.
