Nili Patera's dunes lie on top of a lava bed and show the prevailing direction of the wind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
On the west (left) side of this image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, fairly textbook-looking barchan sand dunes sit atop the bedrock. Barchan dunes pointing in the opposite direction are ...
An innovative technique for measuring the force acting on individual grains of sand could help scientists uncover how winds have shaped the surface of Mars. The method, developed by researchers at the ...
This observation shows a small sand dune field on the floor of Newton Crater, an approximately 300-kilometer wide crater in the Southern Hemisphere of Mars. The image shows both dome and barchan dunes ...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2022 – The English poet William Blake famously implored readers to "see the world in a grain of sand." In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, scientists from the University of ...
image: Researchers at the University of Campinas conducted more than 120 experiments with dunes of up to 10 cm that interact for a few minutes, obtaining a model valid for dunes on the surface of Mars ...
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera captured this intriguing image of a field of stunning dunes known as barchan dunes, as reported first by Universe Today. These dunes were captured in ...
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