Sand traps don't come any bigger than this one on Mars, seen in a view from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying high overhead


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Sand traps don't come any bigger than this one on Mars, seen in a view from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying high overhead.

Marching across the red planet's rugged Terra Cimmeria region, these dunes will soon end up trapped inside the crater, joining the dust of others dunes similarly vanquished.


Attribution: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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