New data gathered by a Mars-orbiting probe suggest that large ripples in sandy areas of the Red Planet are more than twice as tall as their terrestrial counterparts.
Single images taken from space rarely reveal the height of topographic features. However, by combining two orbital images taken from slightly different angles to create so-called stereo pairs of a region, researchers can calculate heights.
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