With wind-blown piles of sand that rise nearly 500 feet above the Pacific Ocean, the Umpqua Dunes just might be the most spectacular spot in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The dunes ...

When you think of towering sand dunes, your mind probably drifts to the Sahara or perhaps Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park, known for its unique alien-like landscape. However, North ...

Yet when it comes to stunning natural beauty, size is far from everything. In this case, Carcross Desert's sublime grandeur and photogenic character reflect not only its own immense beauty, but also ...

Star dunes are giant sand dunes that get their name from the arms of sand and rock that spread down from a central peak. When viewed from above, they can resemble stars.

This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by migrating sand dunes, ... which can reach up to 100 feet (30 m) above ...

A view of lakes caused by heavy rainfall between sand dunes in the desert town of Merzouga, near Rachidia, southeastern Morocco, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.

When a boy suddenly disappeared into a sand dune, ... explored the Sinai and Sahara on leave before drafting his 1941 masterwork The ... are almost always too high above the water table for ...

The study focused upon a star dune in eastern Morocco called Lala Lallia, meaning "highest sacred point" in the local Berber language, situated within the Sahara Desert in a small sand sea called ...

Star dunes are massive sand dunes that owe their name to arms that spread from a central peak. These sand pyramids, which look like stars when viewed from above, ... such as The Mummy and Sahara.

The desert’s enormous star dunes are mysterious structures. These sand dunes are found in some of Earth’s largest modern deserts, but also on the planet Mars and Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Star ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.