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Earth from space: Giant, pyramid-like 'star dunes' slowly wander across Moroccan desert
This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these ...
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Sandboarding 101: Discover the world's best dune-riding spots
Sandboarding is the perfect sport for you if you want the thrill of surfing along with the beauty of deserts. Riding down ...
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Sailing the Dunes
The sand that makes up the dunes had traveled too ... I turned into the wind and hovered like a kite 200 feet above camp. Alain came zooming in underneath me. Landing in such a gale made me ...
This 'Dune' isn't fiction. It's the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas
A more than 40-mile long conveyor belt filled with sand stretches from the oil fields of West Texas to New Mexico, all for the purpose of one mission: oil production ...
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From seed to dune: how can a tiny seed help protect the coastline?
Dunes are considered to be essential for coastal protection. In countries like the Netherlands, where one third of the ...
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SwRI receives $3 million NASA astrobiology grant to study microbial life in Alaska’s arctic sand dunes
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and ...