Decoding how sand grains move and accumulate on Earth can also help scientists understand dune formation on Mars.

Sharp, the layered mountain the rover is climbing ... but the rover's images of the Namib Dune slip face show where such slides have occurred recently. These dunes likely are most active in ...

With its red dunes rolling endlessly into the ocean, the Namib is the oldest desert in ... Our tents were tucked into the side of a rock-strewn mountain, with a roaring fire and dinner set up ...

The inaugural Namib Desert Jazz Festival, a collaboration with the MSC Musica Cruise, will take place at Dune 7, the world ... the Namib Desert and Table Mountain, connected by MSC Cruises.

On Earth, this sort of thing usually happens on wind-protected slopes, leading NASA scientists to conclude the side of this dune, called Namib Dune ... is a 3.4-mile-high mountain that NASA's ...

The Bagnold Dunes are on the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp, a mountain at the center of Gale ... in unprecedented detail. First up is Namib Dune, on the left in this panorama shot featuring ...

But what the apparently barren Namib lacks in rainfall it makes up for with a spectacular inland fog, which appears irregularly on the dunes ... of a Stenocara as a mountain range with many ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

"Stipagrostis sabulicola, the Namib dune bushman grass, is one such plant species that is native to the Namib Desert," explains Dr. Huei Ying Gan from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution ...