A new technique estimates forces on individual sand grains, offering scientists a novel way to study how Martian winds shaped the Red Planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over the sinuous grooves found etched across the sand dunes of Mars. These features, stretching across the planet’s mid-latitudes, resemble erosion caused by flowing ...

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...

Strange, narrow channels threading through some of Mars' sand dunes have intrigued scientists for years. These Martian features don't look like anything on Earth. Early theories proposed that flowing ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...

Instead of a winter wonderland, the Red Planet's northern hemisphere goes through an active—even explosive—spring thaw. While New Year's Eve is around the corner here on Earth, Mars scientists are ...

Amazing. The Mars Curiosity rover made this incredible image of dark sand dunes on Nov. 25th. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Wide angle view of the Bagnold Dunes field taken by the rover's front hazard ...

Getting stuck in sand has ended dreams of exploration before. On Mars, where loose dunes, soft soil and rocky terrain stretch ...

In yet another cool image from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter near Mars, we see these dunes on the planet’s surface. This image comes from the Hellespontus region of Mars, where ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...