This striking astronaut photo shows off an "eye-catching" impact crater in the Sahara Desert ... Related: See all the best images of Earth from space A group of five barchan, or "horned," sand ...

A massive circular structure in the Sahara Desert has puzzled scientists for decades. Spanning 25 miles, it is so large that it can be seen from space. It is known as the Richat Structure ...

More dust from the Sahara Desert in North Africa, is reaching Europe. changes in wind patterns, desertification, and drought in Maghreb region to be blamed. Dust from the Sahara, a vast desert ...

Desert dust represents the largest source of aerosols in the atmosphere by mass. These fine terrestrial particles emitted by wind action can be transported over varying distances. Thus, the Sahara and ...

Brockenbrough writes in incantatory lines about great clouds of dust from the Sahara whose westward motion ... that binds us through time/ and space.” Via impressionistic images, Martinez ...

When the trade winds blow across the Atlantic from the east in the early summer, they carry almost exclusively natural aerosols with them – above all Sahara dust. At other times of the year, the winds ...

Not only does dust make objects appear reddish ("reddening"), it also makes them appear fainter than they really are ("extinction"). It's like we are looking out into space through a dirty window.

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert ... of wind-blown dust preserved in deep-sea ...

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The map makes use of 130 million spectra from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to reveal properties of the dust, which clouds the cosmos between our world and just about everything else ...

How does a clinically-trained immunologist become involved with Sahara dust and human respiratory health? By accident! Several years ago, one of the local television weather reporters cautioned ...

while more dust clouds could be seen from space creeping across West Texas over the weekend. A haboob (pronounced “huh-boob”) is a dust storm that appears like an advancing wall of dust and ...