surprisingly sandy solar system

Mike Beauregard says: fractal (iron-rich silicate) sand dunes, Mars

Opportunity: Endurance Crater by Jason Major

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Mike Beauregard says: iron-rich left; silica right

Sand Sorted by Density by Jeff Sullivan

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Mike Beauregard says: sinuous (iron-poor silicate) sand dunes, Skeleton Coast, Namibia

146365541 by Mis Lugares Favoritos

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Mike Beauregard says: cyclic Pleistocene glacial-interlude desert

Namib desert by Andrew Robertson

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Mike Beauregard says: (iron-rich silicate) basalt-derived dunes? (curator), Mars

ESP_013046_1390 by UAHiRISE (NASA)

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Mike Beauregard says: Guess which planet

March 2011 by Alaska Satellite Facility

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Mike Beauregard says: Rovers carried sets of magnets. Magnetic susceptibily meter not noted [Madsen M.B. et al (2003)]. [JGR Planets, Dec 2003]

Curiosity mastcam R sol 1192 demosaicing det by 2di7 & titanio44

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Mike Beauregard says: large scale complexity, Earth

Les dunes de Liwa du côté d'Arada by Philippe Guillot

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Mike Beauregard says: Silk Road, Taklimakan Desert, China

Dune by Nicolas Monnot

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Mike Beauregard says: captioned by UAHiRise (NASA) Mars survey program with: The Simplicity of Linear Dunes

ESP_017963_2640 by UAHiRISE (NASA)

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Mike Beauregard says: Algeria

Tin Merzouga without footprints by Tan Yilmaz

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Mike Beauregard says: minimal sand dunes in formerly glaciated, clay-rich, dusty Martian desert (ESA)

Perspective view of Deuteronilus Mensae by European Space Agency

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Mike Beauregard says: seif dunes

Ägypten 2008 by Ursula

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Mike Beauregard says: Death Valley

Dunesday by Ryan Buchanan

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Mike Beauregard says: Morocco

Windy Desert by Andrea DM

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Mike Beauregard says: Iran

Lut Desert by Fermin Ezcurdia

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Mike Beauregard says: Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

Blowing "Wave" by Quan Yuan Photo

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Mike Beauregard says: "with a new image acquired every six weeks, changes are obvious" (LOSSI)

The Active Dunes of Nili Patera by Link Observatory Space Science Institute

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Mike Beauregard says: sand-deprived stellate complexity, Mars

PSP_007199_2580 by UAHiRISE (NASA)

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Mike Beauregard says: Roaring Dunes, North Cape desert, South Africa

Roaring Dunes by Anne Clements

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Mike Beauregard says: Singing Dunes, Gobi desert

The Singing Dunes - Mongolia 2012 by bag_lady

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Mike Beauregard says: coastal Peru

Sechura Desert by Alice Aronson

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Mike Beauregard says: coastal South Africa

Southern Africa Cape Coast by Dr Mary Gillham Archive Project

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Mike Beauregard says: Turkmenistan

Karakum Desert by David Stanley

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Mike Beauregard says: Sonoran desert

Finding sand by Dave Arnold Photo

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