Sand grainsstirred up by the winds of Mars are tossed higher and farther than those kickedup by winds on Earth, a new study finds. The results could help explain howdunes migrate across the Martian ...

Last summer, Stephanie McNamara got her first glimpse of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. The park is a monument to sand, where dunes stretch across 30 square miles ...

A new technique estimates forces on individual sand grains, offering scientists a novel way to study how Martian winds shaped the Red Planet. An innovative technique for measuring the force acting on ...

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On a cold winter day in December 2007, a bulldozer flattened nearly 40 acres (16 hectares) of Inner Mongolia's Tengger Desert. It was the start of a unique experiment: For the first time, scientists ...

Sand dunes migrate across landscapes by interacting with and repelling one another in what scientists have called "interesting and beautiful physics." These natural formations, which often cover ...

Giant sand dunes can gather into some of the most awe-inspiring patterns in nature. However, the mechanics of their formation has long remained a mystery. Now a group of physicists based in Algeria, ...

Formed from windblown dry sands, dunes are meant to protect inland areas, acting as a first line of defense from flooding. The small ridges or hills of sand, usually found at the top of a beach, take ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology (1962-1982), Vol. 8, No. 6 (December 1969), pp. 874-883 (10 pages) It is suggested that helical roll vortices in the atmosphere are responsible for the formation of the ...

Titan is one of the weirdest things there is in space with all its methane seas and frozen volcanoes. Then add this possibility: electric sand. Titan is one of at least 62 moons orbiting around Saturn ...