Stage Sand Transport System Winds blowing over a dune can move grains of sand in three main ways. What path these grains take ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology (1962-1982), Vol. 8, No. 6 (December 1969), pp. 874-883 (10 pages) It is suggested that helical roll vortices in the atmosphere are responsible for the formation of the ...

Artificial intelligence is being harnessed by scientists to delve into the mysteries of Martian sand dunes, revealing ...

On a cold winter day in December 2007, a bulldozer flattened nearly 40 acres (16 hectares) of Inner Mongolia's Tengger Desert. It was the start of a unique experiment: For the first time, scientists ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images ...

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A windy day on the beach can leave you a sandy mess with sand everywhere from in your clothes to sand in your hair. Windy beach days, however, can be very important to a beach's ...

This beautifully contrasted infrared-color image shows an area approximately 600 by 900 meters. This is a close-up of the western Medusa Fossae formation where we can see dust-covered rocky, bedrock ...

Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is now bigger. That's thanks to the transfer of 9,362 acres of surrounding ranch land, as recently celebrated by Secretary of the Interior Deb ...