A high-resolution camera mounted on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped pictures of unusual, almost perfectly circular sand dunes on the Red Planet's surface. When you purchase through ...

Planetary scientists have captured an image of near-perfectly circular sand dunes on the surface of Mars. While sand dunes across the Red Planet come in a wealth of shapes and sizes, such well ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been capturing high-resolution images of the Martian surface. Over ten years of ...

On the Red Planet's northern hemisphere, there are frozen sand dunes that look just like kidney beans-but you definitely ...

While sand dunes of many sizes and shapes are common on Mars, circular dunes are rare, Nasa said in a statement. The images, taken from Mars’s northern hemisphere, revealed circular dunes with ...

Scientists have devised a new way to study winds on Mars by examining sand dunes on the planet’s surface. The resulting wind map could help explain recent changes in the martian climate and ...

However, in contrast to our planet's constantly changing dunes, Mars appears motionless in the image. That's because the dunes are coated in a carbon dioxide frost. Scientists recently discovered ...

Dunes in the north of Mars are not frozen in time as some have thought — conversely, their sands can shift both slowly and quickly, scientists have found. These dune fields cover an area the ...

In the photo, taken in Sept. 2022 and publicly released in Dec. 2024, the dunes appear surprisingly motionless. Dunes on both Mars and Earth usually migrate as wind picks up grains of sand from ...

(AP) — Water may be more widespread and recent on Mars than previously thought, based on observations of Martian sand dunes by China’s rover. The finding highlights new, potentially fertile ...

The findings, published in the journal PNAS, not only reveal how these so-called "proto dunes" occur on Earth, but could hold clues to how they form on Mars and other planets. "These are the kind ...

Qin says the findings from the Zhurong rover point to comparatively mild ground temperatures, which suggests the low-latitude sand dunes of Mars could be hospitable to life. A.R. Khuller and P.R ...