But once sand grains are buried ... The answer, the scientists wrote, may be a matter of perspective. Star dunes are so big; ...
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 ...
Top Mojave fringe-toed lizard speeds have been clocked at 23 miles per hour — no small feat on loose, windblown sand dunes. These lizards plunge into the sand to hide from enemies, yet there they lie ...
The perfect moment came when the sun reached all the way down to the bottom of the sand dune just before it reached ... it all the way down to compress the perspective.
A new perspective on the fabric of reality Bill ... may be a better fit for the observations we have of Titan’s dunes: the sand particles may come from far beyond Titan’s atmosphere.