{"id":184583,"date":"2024-03-09T01:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-reveal-secrets-of-earths-magnificent-desert-star-dunes"},"modified":"2024-03-09T01:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:53:35","slug":"scientists-reveal-secrets-of-earths-magnificent-desert-star-dunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-reveal-secrets-of-earths-magnificent-desert-star-dunes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal secrets of Earth\u2019s magnificent desert star dunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reveal-secrets-of-earths-magnificent-desert-star-dunes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>March 4 (Reuters) \u2014 They are among the wonders of our deserts: star dunes, the vaguely pyramid-shaped sand formations up to about 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall with arms stretching out from a central peak to give them a star-like appearance when viewed from above.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists on Monday unveiled the first in-depth study of a star dune, revealing the internal structure of these geological features and showing how long it took for one of them to form \u2014 more quickly than expected but still a process unfolding over many centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The study focused upon a star dune in eastern Morocco called Lala Lallia, meaning \u201chighest sacred point\u201d in the local Berber language, situated within the Sahara Desert in a small sand sea called Erg Chebbi about 3 miles (5 km) from the town of Merzouga, close to the border with Algeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 4 (Reuters) \u2014 They are among the wonders of our deserts: star dunes, the vaguely pyramid-shaped sand formations up to about 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall with arms stretching out from a central peak to give them a star-like appearance when viewed from above. Scientists on Monday unveiled the first in-depth study of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}