This image is part of a seasonal monitoring campaign to detect changes and quantify migration rates of the dunes in McLaughlin Crater. McLaughlin is one of the deepest craters on Mars, and was named after Dean B. McLaughlin, an American astronomer (1901-1965).

ID: ESP_054964_2020
date: 18 April 2018
altitude: 287 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_054964_2020
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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