Archive: 2016 - Through the sandglass

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Totally off-piste, but I have to say this

I spent twenty years of my life living and working in the US. My wife is American. My kids were born in Detroit and Dallas (and my daughter currently works in n...

March 1, 2016 11 min read

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Back to the Bagnold dunes - stunning images

Curiosity, that hard-working field geologist, just keeps on delivering - this is surely the selfie to end all selfies (please). The rover continues to bustle ar...

February 1, 2016 2 min read

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February 2016

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

February 1, 2016 2 min read

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2016: the year of the Bagnold dunes

Last month, NASA issued a press release to announce that the Curiosity Rover had reached the “Bagnold dunes” and was preparing to investigate. The image above i...

January 1, 2016 10 min read

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A Reverence for Rivers (2)

Turn on the tap in your kitchen so that it’s running at a typical (if not particularly conservative) rate of around three US gallons per minute. Ensure that you...

January 1, 2016 14 min read