This is alist ofdune fields not on Earth which have been given official names by theInternational Astronomical Union. Dune fields are named according to the IAU's rules ofplanetary nomenclature. The relevantdescriptor term isundae. As of now, the only twoSolar System planets, besides Earth, with named dune fields areVenus andMars. Dune fields have also been discovered onSaturn's moonTitan,^[1]Pluto^[2][3] and comet67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.^[4]

There are three officially named dune fields on Venus. They are named after desert goddesses, as per the IAU's rules. They are listed below.

• Al-Uzza Undae 67.7N, 90.5E – named afterUzza, an Arabian desert goddess
• Menat Undae 24.8S, 339.4E
• Ningal Undae 9.0N, 60.7E – named after Ningal, the wife of the Sumerian desert godSin

There are six officially named dune fields on Mars, which are named after nearbyclassical albedo features in accordance with the IAU's rules. Five of them lie between 75°N to 85°N, betweenPlanum Boreum andVastitas Borealis. These dune fields span over 200 degrees of longitude. The sixth, Ogygis Undae, lies on the southern hemisphere of Mars. They are listed below.

• Abalos Undae^[5]
• Aspledon Undae
• Hyperboreae Undae
• Ogygis Undae
• Olympia Undae
• Siton Undae

• Bagnold dune field, Gale crater. This dune field was explored byCuriosity between initially between mission Sols ~1174–1248, where the rover investigated High dune, and Namib dune. Three orders of bedform were identified: wind ripple, large ripple (or wind drag ripple^[6]) and dune.^[7] Sand grains in this section of the dune field had a modal grain size of 120 μm^[8]
• Namib dune, Gale crater. This is a prominent feature that looks like the giant dunes of Africa’s Namib Desert.^[9]
• As part of theMars Exploration Rover mission, a small dune field unofficially named El Dorado on the south side ofHusband Hill inGusev crater was investigated by theSpirit rover fromsols 706 to 710.^[10] Analysis of El Dorado showed that it consists of black wind-blown sand which is "well-sorted, well-rounded andolivine rich.^[11]

• TheHagal dune field is named afterFrank Herbert's novelDune and the fictional planet Hagal. The field is also known as the "Martian Morse Code" due to the similarity of the Dune shapes toMorse code dots and dashes.
• Nili Patera dune field

There are five officially named dune fields on Titan, which are named after Greek gods, goddesses or personifications of wind. They are listed below:^[12]

• Aura Undae
• Boreas Undae
• Eurus Undae
• Notus Undae
• Zephyrus Undae

Literature also uses names of dark albedo features when referring to Titan's dune fields:

• Aztlan^[13]
• Belet^[14]
• Fensal^[14]
• Senkyo^[13]
• Shangri-La^[13]

Analysis of high resolution photos fromNew Horizons taken on 14 July 2015 of Pluto'sSputnik Planum region in 2018 has confirmed the presence oftransverse dunes (perpendicular to the wind streaks) within the cellular nitrogen plains, spaced about 0.4 to 1 km apart, that are thought to be composed of 200–300 μm diameter particles of methane ice believed to be derived from the nearbyAl-Idrisi Montes.^[2][3] These features are yet to be formally named.

A large portion of this article was sourced from theGazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, the official IAU database of planetary names.

• Ralph Lorenz; James Zimbelman (2014).Dune Worlds: How Wind-blown Sand Shapes Planetary Landscapes. Springer.ISBN 978-3-540-89724-8.

• Extraterrestrial Dunes

• Extraterrestrial dunes
• Surface features of Mars
• Surface features of Venus
• Surface features of bodies of the Solar System

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