To help researchers model climate effects, the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission will measure the composition of minerals that become airborne dust. Blown by wind across ...
Every gust of wind that sweeps across a dryland landscape does more than stir up dust. It launches an invisible aerial ...
Dust particles thrown up from deserts such as the Sahara and Gobi are playing a previously unknown role in air pollution, a new study has found. The international study published in National Science ...
New scattering theory shows that very large, iron-rich desert dust particles produce lidar signals resembling pollution or smoke, potentially causing satellite algorithms to systematically ...
Washington, D.C. — Dust samples collected by high-flying aircraft in the upper atmosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos, report scientists from the ...