Mars Global Surveyor snapped this picture in April. It shows dark sand dunes in a crater north of Syrtis Major near 27.1N, 297.2W. The steepest slopes on each dune face toward the bottom/lower left of the image, indicating that the dominant winds that influenced their formation came from the north (the top of the image).

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