land on the sunny side of a sand dune; the shady side usually has downdrafts, so you just drop like a stone. White sand is safer to fly over than dark sand. Dark sand absorbs the heat, then ...

“The different colours of sand in different deserts are also very striking, with yellow, white, red and even black dunes in different parts of the world.” Birkbeck University’s – and fello ...

The kidney bean-shaped sand dunes spotted on Mars. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has clicked a stunning picture of the Red Planet's surface showing frozen sand dunes in the northern ...

How can something that is constantly shifting stand up to 750 feet tall? This southwestern park features the largest sand dunes in North America, and the key to their extraordinary height seems to lie ...

Theri Kaadu, or the Their desert or The desert of Waste as called by the locales, is a vast land with red dunes located in ...

A unique combination of sand and snow transformed a Colorado national park into an otherworldly winter wonderland, a stunning ...

Standing at heights ranging from 10 to 60 feet above the ground, the Erra Matti Dibbalu (red sand dunes or red sand hills) used to catch the attention of any motorist driving along the ...