Dust

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Watch A West Texas Town Get Consumed By A Dust Storm

1:00AM October 20, 2011 | Mario Aguilar

This is what it feels like to have your world completely engulfed in a hell of dust. Lubbock, Texas just got nailed by a 2400m high wall of red dirt. Dust storms make awesome video, but this is terrifying. More »

Cameras

The Arizona Dust Storm Captured In Time-Lapse Video

3:13PM July 6, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Arizona was hit with a massive dust storm that turned day into night, halted flights, and knocked out power to over 8000 people. Those in the midst of this amazing storm fired up their cameras and began capturing video of the storm as it hit. More »

Science

Missing Moon Dust Shows Up After 40 Years

1:40AM June 25, 2011 | Joe Brown

Of all the things that NASA could lose – satellites, astronauts, chimpanzees – a one-inch piece of tape covered in moon dust from Apollo 11 seems pretty arbitrary. But that doesn’t mean investigators were going to give up looking, even 40 years later. More »

Science

Giz Explains: Where Dust Bunnies Come From

7:20AM December 22, 2010 | John Herrman

I first met my terrible dust bunny, cowering under a soon-to-be replaced video card. It was 2003. Since then, he has puffed around in my periphery, a dusty daemon on my figurative shoulder. And in my literal apartments. More »

Science

Hayabusa Probe Successfully Brings Home Asteroid Dust

11:00AM November 17, 2010 | Clay Dillow - PopSci

Astronomers and space geeks the world over have been waiting to hear confirmation from JAXA (the Japanese space agency) that the troubled Hayabusa mission did indeed bring back samples of asteroid dust. Today they got it. More »

Science

Hayabusa Space Probe May Contain Asteroid Dust Or Just Normal Dust

5:47PM July 7, 2010 | Gary Cutlack

See that? It might be a dust particle from an asteroid! Or it might be a flake of dried skin from a man in the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency factory that built the Hayabusa probe. No one knows yet. More »

Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Art

4:20PM December 13, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

When I see dust, I start cleaning like crazy. When Paul Hazelton sees dust, he collects it and turns it into statues. Yes, this skeleton was really made out of a pile of dust bunnies, just like Hazelton’s other art. More »