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 ...

Sitting on rugs around a campfire in the dunes of the Sahara, and then dancing with them under the stars was a truly memorable moment. At night, you must go out into the dunes to watch the stars!

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

Former rally driver Tahar Karya is an expert at tackling the Sahara’s sand dunes in his four-by-four. He was George Lucas’s personal driver during the filming in Tunisia and has a personal ...

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 ...