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 ...

Saharan dust is expected to hit the Texas Gulf Coast by Sunday, becoming the most irritating to sensitive eyes and noses by early next week.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why a plume of Saharan dust arriving in Houston is actually a good thing for hurricane season. The mineral particles don't just make skies hazy and give sunsets an orange glow. ...

Mineral dust is as old as the oldest time, nearly as old as a solid planet. You've got the dust belt around the middle of the globe. The water cycle, nitrogen cycle, ...