Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Big outbreaks of Saharan dust – tens of millions of tons of mineral dust hoisted from the sands of North Africa into the ...

A simple dust grain brought back from asteroid Ryugu is shaking up certain certainties. A rare mineral, djerfisherite, was ...

In October of 1957, the USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite into orbit around Earth. Today, we're combining ...

In the week ahead, strong winds from the Sahara Desert will pick up its mineral dust, and the jetstream will carry it more than 5,000 miles west to the U.S.

Called EMIT, the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation will analyze dust carried through the atmosphere from dry regions to see what effects it has on the planet. Each year, […] ...

Each year, strong winds carry more than a billion metric tons – or the weight of 10,000 aircraft carriers – of mineral dust from Earth’s deserts and other dry regions through the atmosphere.

The instrument, called Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT), flew to the orbital outpost aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule on July 14 and was installed on the space station's ...

Each year, more than a hundred million tons of mineral dust from the world’s largest hot desert are heaved across the Atlantic, often blowing through the Caribbean to the shores of South Florida ...

What is Saharan dust? Saharan dust is made up of sand and mineral particles swept up from 3.5 million square miles of Africa's Sahara Desert. Also called the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) by the ...

Researchers from UCSD have been collecting samples of mineral dust at the dunes to learn more about its components, which is challenging decades of studies released by the SLO Air Pollution ...