The Shifting Winds of Hellas Plantia
HiRISE PICTURE OF THE DAY: 18 NOVEMBER 2025
The Shifting Winds of Hellas Plantia

Sand dunes on Mars are subject to variety of wind regimes and impacting conditions that have produced a diverse catalog of dune shapes and sizes.



HiRISE Instrument News
Since July 23, 2023, HiRISE observations have lacked data from the RED4 CCD due to a hardware issue, creating a gap in the middle of image products and reducing the color swath to 1 CCD width. We are investigating the hardware issue and may be able to acquire some RED4 data in the future.

Circular Sand Dunes
Sand dunes of many shapes and sizes are common on Mars. In this example the dunes are almost perfectly circular, which is unusual.