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NASA’s Mars Orbiter Captures ‘Kidney Bean’ Sand Dunes: What It Reveals About the Red Planet
Mars has always captured human imagination with its striking red hues and mysterious landscapes. Recent images from NASA’s ...
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Sailing the Dunes
This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...
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Great Kobuk Sand Dunes (IMAGE)
The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes encompass 25 squares miles in Alaska’s Kobuk Valley National Park. With a new NASA grant, ...
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These Kidney Beans On Mars Are Frozen Sand Dunes, And They Could Have Hosted Life A Long Time Ago
On the Red Planet’s northern hemisphere, there are frozen sand dunes that look just like kidney beans-but you definitely ...
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These sand dunes in Iran look like they're straight out of a cartoon — but they're real and insanely dangerous
There are no routes, no trails, no water — just the crazy hills of insanely soft sand. Knowledge of ... through the entirety of the dunes. You can see more images of Flensted's trip on his ...
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures kidney bean-shaped frozen sand dunes, offering clues to Mars' potential for life
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of kidney bean-shaped frozen sand dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere, revealing layers of carbon dioxide frost. These formations provide ...