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Look: This landform on the Martian surface is actually moving

by Jennifer Walter
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Frosty NASA dunes
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

NASA via Giphy

Mars is not known for being a quiet, still place.

Dust storms, violent weather, and changing seasons mean it’s constantly in motion; in some ways, quite similarly to Earth.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

For a while, scientists thought that ripples on the Martian surface were simply a landform frozen in time, leftover by a past climate.

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