What's it like to be on Venus or Pluto? We studied their sand dunes and found some clues

Sand blown by wind into ripples within Victoria Crater at Meridiani Planum on Mars, as photographed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on October 3, 2006. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Cornell/Ohio State University

What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturn’s moon Titan?

This curiosity has driven advances in space exploration since Sputnik 1 was launched 65 years ago. But we’re only beginning to scratch the surface of what is knowable about other planetary bodies in the Solar System.