North Polar Erg

One of the Image of the Day topics looked at the north polar sand sea and isolated dune fields at lower latitudes. Sand seas on Earth are often called 'ergs', an Arabic name for dune field. A sand sea differs from a dune field in two ways: 1) a sand sea has a large regional extent, and 2) the individual dunes are large in size and complex in form.
This VIS image was taken at 81 degrees North latitude during Northern spring. This region of the north polar erg is dominated by small separate dunes.