... Shop . Home . / . News . / . NASA orbiter catches Mars sanddunes in motion . ... Images from NASAт??s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show sanddunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars at dozens ...
... one agent of change on Marsт?? northern sanddunes, and stronger-than-expected wind ... to research using images from a NASA orbiter, sanddunes in a vast area of northern ...
... carbon dioxide sliding down martian sanddunes, rather than flowing liquid water ... dioxide dry ice may glide down some martian sanddunes on cushions of gas similar to ...
... Cassini spacecraft has revealed regional variations among Titan's sanddunes ... Although similar in shape to the linear sanddunes found in the deserts of Namibia ... Read more about Titanт??s sanddunes in the April 2012 issue of Astronomy , on ...
... spring progresses, the ice cracks (Panel B), releasing dark sand from the dune below ... seasonal changes on far-northern martian sanddunes caused by warming of a winter ...
... of gullies along the steep slope of a sanddune in an unnamed crater west of the ... very hard for water to flow on a sanddune because sand is so porous," Malin says ...
... Reddish areas indicate dunes of sand rich in the mineral olivine. ... The team also found widespread sanddunes composed of olivine-rich sand, and ... at low elevations, are large numbers of dark sanddunes, composed largely of olivine ...
... the direction in which Titan's sanddunes form, we get some insight into the global ... transition zone, the sand-sized particles that make up the dunes might not be so ... In this case, insufficient sand to replenish the dunes makes them gradually ...