The huge Namib Dune (Picture: NASA)

NASA has released incredible images of sand dunes on Mars.

This is the first time anyone has been able to study active sand dunes on another planet, and we’re all really excited.

View of the downwind face of Namib Dune on Mars (Picture: NASA)

Although Curiosity Mars Rover has snapped pictures of Martian sand dunes before, they’ve never been as up close as this.

The photos show the colossal, rippled Namib Dune which stands at around 13 to 17 feet tall.


The active sand dunes of Mars (Picture: NASA)

Scientists haven’t observed any sand avalanches or ripples happening yet, but they’ve got high hopes.

‘We’ll be in the same location for a little while, so hopefully we’ll have the chance to observe some sand movement,’ Lauren Edgar, reserch geologist at the USGS Astrogeology Science Centre, wrote in a mission update.