Dunes are particularly suited to comprehensive planetary studies because they are abundant over a wide range of elevations and terrain types. Observations like this one are used to aid in classification and volume estimates of dunes in USGS global dune database.

ID: ESP_040336_1110
date: 5 March 2015
altitude: 248 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_040336_1110
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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