But when viewed from above, their namesake shape becomes more obvious: Tendrils of sand radiate out from a central peak, ...

The famed coastal dunes that inspired the shifting sand landscape of the desert planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel “Dune” are also under siege — from climate change ...

29 and shared by Earth Observatory show changes to the landscape ... The stage was now set for the birth and growth of desert dunes': How the Sahara turned from a vast forest to the arid landscape ...

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

And it may be that dunes themselves are emerging as a fascinating new feature of space exploration. NASA / JHUAPL / SWRI Pluto now joins Earth, Mars, Venus, Saturn's moon Titan and even the comet ...

A striking image taken from the International Space Station reveals the Erg Chebbi dunes in southeastern Morocco, part of the ...

The age of one of Earth's largest and most complex types of sand dune has been calculated for the first time. Star dunes - or pyramid dunes - are named after their distinctive shapes and reach ...

‘Studying desert dunes continues to be essential to our understanding of the geomorphology and climate of Earth and other worlds in the solar system. The update to this anchoring text seamlessly ...

But while Earth’s rivers and lakes are of liquid water ... mountain ridges, mesas and dunes. Images from NASA's Cassini mission show river networks draining into lakes in Titan's north polar ...

The 0.5-hectare Luna Terrace is part of the famed Tottori Sand Dunes, but is located outside ... radiation hundreds of times stronger than on Earth. The company’s second-generation “air ...