In 2010, Sparavigna started investigating Google Earth satellite images of China’s remote Taklamakan desert to study the textures carved into the sand dunes by the wind. In the process ...

more than double its yearly average—captures the arid desert’s typical large swaths of sand with ripples sculpted by wind. But there’s one novel feature: water lakes in the flat lowlands ...

Etched onto the desert sands of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, this unique sand drawing is the world's largest single artwork with a total circumference of over nine miles. Big enough to contain ...