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 ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UA Lunar and Planetary Lab has released a particularly beautiful new batch of HiRISE photos of the Martian surface this week. See them here. Don’t forget: The LPL is having a picnic on Mount ...

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, ...

More great snapshots of Mars taken by the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab’s HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Zilair Crater? The dunes of Aonia Terra? Who names these places, Edgar Rice ...