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 ...

Mini sand dunes form from bouncing sand on hard surfaces. A new model explains their growth on both Earth and Mars. A new ...

They may resemble kidney beans, but formations on the northern hemisphere of Mars are actually sand dunes covered in carbon dioxide frost How cold winters are on Mars depends on the tilt of its axis.

Sand dune secrets on Mars The secret behind these shifting Mars sand dunes is twofold — the seasonal coming and going of "dry ice" is one cause, and surprisingly powerful gusts of wind make up ...

In the photo, taken in Sept. 2022 and publicly released in Dec. 2024, the dunes appear surprisingly motionless. Dunes on both Mars and Earth usually migrate as wind picks up grains of sand from ...

Martian dunes migrate as the wind blows away grains of sand from one side of a dune and builds upon another. However, in contrast to our planet's constantly changing dunes, Mars appears motionless ...

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 ...