HiPOD: These Are Not the Dunes You’re Looking For
In this picture, we discover that the dark bands thought to be sand dunes are instead bands of surface boulders. The bouldery area looks dark at lower resolution because these rocks cast small shadows. We think the bouldery bands are caused by the removal of finer-grained material.
More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_082871_1240
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But how did they originally get positioned there? Looks like the result of a massive flooding event.
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