Kaiser Crater Dunes

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. The winds blow from the windward to the leeward side of the dunes. In this image the slip faces are on the left side of the dune, so the dunes are slowly moving to the left side of this image. Orbit Number: 75451 Latitude: -46.7049 Longitude: 20.0962 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2018-12-17 21:20 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23036