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Star Dunes in Algeria

Complex wind patterns left these distinctive star-shapes in the sands of the Grand Erg Oriental.


NASA image courtesy NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published September 29, 2013
Data acquired October 27 - 27, 2012

Source:
Terra > ASTER