Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future missions to the red planet.

After making decent – if bumpy – progress, we pulled off onto the sand flats and drove slowly toward the dunes, worried we might get stuck in the sand. Having arrived on the outskirts of the ...

After making decent – if bumpy – progress, we pulled off onto the sand flats and drove slowly toward the dunes, worried we might get stuck in the sand. Having arrived on the outskirts of the ...

Measuring sand patterns in person The shapes and patterns of aeolian bedforms can reveal the environmental conditions that created them.