Mars’ sand can walk on water. During summers on Mars, the combination of warm temperatures, deposits of ice and the planet’s thin atmosphere could be causing sand to levitate.

A high-resolution camera mounted on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped pictures of unusual, almost perfectly circular sand dunes on the Red Planet's surface. When you purchase through ...

Planetary scientists have captured an image of near-perfectly circular sand dunes on the surface of Mars. While sand dunes across the Red Planet come in a wealth of shapes and sizes, such well ...

On the Red Planet's northern hemisphere, there are frozen sand dunes that look just like kidney beans-but you definitely ...

Mars also isn’t a friendly environment for ... But a closer study of the streaks revealed that they behave just like dry grains of sand on active dunes, all settling at the same “angle of ...

The sandy landscape of Mars is home to plenty of severe weather, including the odd dust storm so large that it can be observed by telescopes on Earth. But its day-to-day weather remains something ...

When it comes to signs of flowing water on Mars, planetary scientists might be ... water activity might actually just be caused by dry sand. The findings, described in the journal Nature ...

The images, captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), show small, erosion-carved cracks in Red Planet sand dunes. The features may be infant versions of the similar-looking but ...

The Mars Curiosity rover is gearing up to boogie on the beach as NASA sends it on a new mission to study the Red Planet's fascinating sand dunes. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C.

Mars’ sand can walk on water. During summers on Mars, the combination of warm temperatures, deposits of ice and the planet’s thin atmosphere could be causing sand to levitate. Mars can get as ...