Figure 1: Comparison of sand dune patterns in the solar system. The dune reconstitution time concept implies that changes in wind direction that are shorter in duration than the time needed to ...

Researchers have analyzed the shifting patterns of entire dune fields on Earth and Mars, as seen from orbit, and found they are a direct signature of recent environmental change. This new tool can be ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...

In a study of the harsh but beautiful White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, researchers have uncovered a unifying mechanism to explain dune patterns. The new work represents a contribution to ...

Feb. 22 (UPI) --Researchers in France have explained the large dune-like patterns found on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Images collected by the now-retired Rosetta probe and its ...

Before deploying in 2010, I did some research looking for a uniform with an effective desert pattern. ACU's just don't cut it, as the Army has had to reluctantly admit only after Congressional ...

(A–B) Locations of mapped dune fields on (A) Earth and (B) Mars. (C–D) Examples of mapping and interaction identification on (C) linear dunes in Tanami Desert, Australia, and (D) crescentic dunes at ...

Looking at dunes and other rock formations on both Earth and Mars can tell scientists the environmental conditions that created them When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Dunes, the mounds of sand formed by the wind that vary from ripples on the beach to towering behemoths in the desert, are incarnations of surface processes, climate change, and the surrounding ...