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Kaiser Crater Dunes
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This VIS image is located in Kaiser Crater and shows several individual dunes. With continued winds sand dunes will move across the surface. There are two sides to a dune, the low angle slope of the windward face and the high angle slope of the leeward side. The steep side is called the slip face. Wind blows sand grains up the low angle slope of the dunes which then "fall down" the slip face. In this way the whole dune moves towards the slip face.
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Credit lineKaiser Crater Dunes. NASA/JPL, 2019-02-15. Public domain. ID: PIA23036.
