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, ...

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...

Barchan dune field maps on Mars produced by machine learning, with inferred dune migration and wind directions. Credit: Geophysical Research Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1029/2022GL102610 Mars is one of ...

Humans have long been curious about how different planets work, and Mars remains one of the most mysterious of them all. For decades, scientists have tried to understand its surface, especially its ...

Almost perfectly circular sand dunes dot the surface of Mars. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured stunning images of almost perfectly round sand dunes on the surface of the Red ...

High-resolution images from NASA’s HiRISE camera have revealed striking similarities between sand dunes on Mars and those on ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.

Dunes develop when wind-blown sand organizes into patterns, most often in deserts and arid or semi-arid parts of the world. Every continent on Earth has dune fields, but dunes and dune-like sand ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lauren Berger, Texas A&M University (THE CONVERSATION) Our two-person team loaded the ...