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

By using the virtual map though the desert, people can climb sand dunes reaching towering heights of between 16ft and 147ft (5 and 45 metres) and see the views in Google Street View. The rolling ...

A network of ancient rivers and streams that once flowed beneath Australia’s Simpson desert ... map to devise a complete river system. To remove the distortions caused by the sand dunes ...

While the formation of large desert dunes ... Proto dunes have been difficult to study in detail because they are small (up to a few centimeters in height), move and grow rapidly (from nothing ...

GLEN ARBOR, MI -- There’s no threat of sand worms out in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, but hikers should be prepared for a desert climate, rangers warn. The Sleeping Bear Dunes is ...

As she fled from the hunter, her many tears formed a desert oasis ... We approached a consecutive set of three dunes that ranged in height from 650 to 1,000 feet with very steep gradients.

Photographer Karim Bouchetata captured the amazing moment snow fell on the red sand dunes in the world’s largest hot desert ... A weather map analysis from Monday shows that temperatures ...

Figure 1: The landscape-scale experiment site in the Tengger Desert. Figure 3: Morphology and dynamics of individual dunes according ... reed of 40 cm height) overlying the erodible bed.