Three flat-topped hills rising between 1,000 and 1,300 feet above the desert floor in southern Mauritania caught an astronaut ...
Last summer, Stephanie McNamara got her first glimpse of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. The park is a monument to sand, where dunes stretch across 30 square miles ...
What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...
In some places, sand dunes protect shorelines from the onslaught of ocean waves. In other places, the dunes themselves are on the move, and threaten human structures. Host Flora Lichtman talks with ...
I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial photos ...
Mars Express orbiter has captured striking images of dark, wave-like dunes inside Kaiser Crater on Mars. Rising about 100 ...
One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. On a recent morning, traffic on ...
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