Viewed from space, the western edge of the Sahara Desert looks like another world. Its abundance of red-tinged sand turns ...

The age of one of Earth's largest and most complex types of sand dune has been ... see how quickly this enormous dune formed, and that it is moving across the desert at about 50cm a year," he ...

From the edge of space, the Sahara Desert looks like it belongs more on the planet Mars than Earth, with the red-tinged dune ...

I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition ... Nor did I realize the allure of dunes. Once I started flying in the desert, I came under its spell and began what ...

Almost like a scene from Mars, or the Dune movies, astronauts aboard the International Space Station recently photographed ...

The sand's lengthy, windy journey means that grains deposited on the surface of the dune are extremely round, smooth, and uniform. Next, a desert rainstorm must take place, washing dust and other ...

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the characteristics of desert dunes and their sediments, and explores their dynamics on timescales from days to millennia as they respond to changes in ...