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Incredible NASA image captures ‘sea of dunes’ on the surface of Mars – Yahoo News Australia
The image shows the red planet’s northern polar cap, where the dunes cover an area as big as Texas.
This false-colour image of an area of Mars was taken by the Odyssey satellite. (Nasa)
Dunes glowing gold against a background of blue shine out on the surface of Mars in an incredible image from a long-serving Nasa satellite.
The false-colour image shows colder areas in blue so theres not actually a huge ocean on the Martian surface.
The image shows Mars’s northern polar cap, where the dunes cover an area as big as Texas, although the area in the image is 19 miles wide.
Nasa said: In this false-color…
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