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

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 ...

The stage was now set for the birth and growth of desert dunes and the great sand seas that now cover about one-fifth of the Sahara. During glacial intervals, as the ice caps grew, global sea ...

There aren't a lot of streets in the UAE's Liwa Desert, but you can now explore the massive, sandy dunes on Google Street View anyway. Google announced this week that a virtual tour of the ...