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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 Mars Orbiter unveiled a peculiar geological feature that has intrigued ...
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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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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 can’t […] ...
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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 ...
Students working to restore sand dunes in Coney Island. Here's why activists say their help is needed.
"Nature-based solutions have been shown to be holistic and sustainable, and they work. Sand dunes will help to mitigate the ...