These dunes on a crater floor have a frost of carbon dioxide ice. In the spring, the ice melts directly into vapor. The dark streaks in this image may mark places where the gas has escaped. This image was taken by by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Jan. 1, 2010.

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