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Mysterious blue sand dunes on Mars
Conquer Mars

Mysterious blue sand dunes on Mars

NASA has announced a strange and colorful sand dune structure that has been sent back to Earth by the Reconnaissance Orbiter.

December 18, 2018
5 threats to coastal sand dunes
Oceanography

5 threats to coastal sand dunes

5 threats to the stability of coastal sand dunes: Tourism activities; excessive grazing; invaded by other plants and animals; eroded when sea level rises; golf course, s…

December 17, 2018
Sand dunes are leeches on Mars
Space science

Sand dunes are leeches on Mars

The camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) took a picture of the Martian sand dune shaped like a large leech.

December 17, 2018
NASA decodes a mystery on Mars
Space science

NASA decodes a mystery on Mars

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has just released a study that helps explain the existence of long and mysterious grooves on the slopes of giant sand dunes on Mars.

December 17, 2018
The surface of Mars is still inactive
Space science

The surface of Mars is still inactive

In the 1890s, when Percival Lowell first saw Mars through a telescope, he discovered some noticeable features on the planet, namely: there were many grooves intersecting…

December 17, 2018
Ice melts on Mars
Space science

Ice melts on Mars

Summer on Mars, similar to Earth, most of the planet's ice around the South Pole is melting in warm weather.

December 17, 2018