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Far side of the moon’s fiery past.

21 March 2025 grant 0

Space reveals that the far side of the moon was once a vast, glowing ocean of magma, according to samples retrieved by a Chinese lunar lander:

The Chang’e 6 mission launched in early

… Read the rest “Far side of the moon’s fiery past.”
Scientific illustration of the aftermath of a volcanic eruption, with a man in a suit standing beside a large rock, apparently holding his arms out for scale. Such was science in 1925.

Science Art: Boulder ejected from Halemaumau, at Kīlauea, May 11, 1925

27 January 2025 grant 0

Such was science in 1925. A man in a fedora and tie, pointing at impact craters on the ground, standing next to a large rock, resting one foot on it in fact. He’s probably a geologist …… Read the rest “Science Art: Boulder ejected from Halemaumau, at Kīlauea, May 11, 1925”

Maybe the Earth had a ring like Saturn once…

17 September 2024 grant 0

Science Direct, or really, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, has a study of very old craters that suggests that in the Ordovician period, around 460 million years ago or so, when trilobites… Read the rest “Maybe the Earth had a ring like Saturn once…”

SONG: Oceans Under Mars

24 August 2024 grant 0

SONG: “Oceans Under Mars”. (WAV version here.)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: PhysOrg, 12 Aug 2024, “Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It’s just too deep to tap.… Read the rest “SONG: Oceans Under Mars”

Scientific illustration of glowing minerals, green and crystalline.

Science Art: Smithsonite, from the Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History.

4 August 2024 grant 0

This is a glowing hunk of rock, lit from within.

The rock was found in the Kelly Mine in Magadela, New Mexico. Smithsonite is a form of zinc carbonate, or zinc spar, that’s formed a large… Read the rest “Science Art: Smithsonite, from the Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History.”

Climate change affects the Earth’s rotation more than the Moon does.

26 July 2024 grant 0

PhysOrg shares research from ETH Zurich that demonstrates something that should be obvious to anyone who’s played pool. But as the warming Earth makes the ice caps melt, changing… Read the rest “Climate change affects the Earth’s rotation more than the Moon does.”

Curiosity finds some exciting times on Mars.

25 July 2024 grant 0

Mashable reports on the Mars Rover Curiosity, which has just found evidence of some major flooding and splishing and splashing on the surface of Mars long ago:

Although Mars today is 1,000

… Read the rest “Curiosity finds some exciting times on Mars.”
Scientific illustration of the planet Earth as seen from space, possibly the first such image ever created, at least in the modern era.

Science Art: Earth by Henry De la Beche, from Researches in Theoretical Geology, 1834.

3 March 2024 grant 0

This depiction of Earth might be the first such image of our planet as seen from space. No human (as far as we know) had ever been to space at the time Henry De la Beche drew this. He’d started… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth by Henry De la Beche, from Researches in Theoretical Geology, 1834.”

SONG: Fine Altar Stone

20 November 2023 grant 0

SONG: “Fine Altar Stone”. (available as .ogg here)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on IFL Science, 25 Sep 2023, “The Stonehenge Altar Stone Didn’t Come From Where We Thought… Read the rest “SONG: Fine Altar Stone”

Stonehenge’s altar is not like the other stones.

29 September 2023 grant 0

IFL Science takes a closer look at the massive stones of Stonehenge. Most of them seem to have been transported with great effort from a faraway quarry in Wales. But the monument’s … Read the rest “Stonehenge’s altar is not like the other stones.”

Scientific illustration in the form of an orange-and-yellow map showing the thickness of sediments.

Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.

2 April 2023 grant 0

This map shows where silt was laid down untold ages ago. According to its brief description on Wikimedia Commons, it depicts: Loess sediments distribution and its thickness in western … Read the rest “Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.”

An aerial photo of flowing streams of lava, steam and smoke rising above the black stone and glowing orange lava. Photo from the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, taken by the Civil Air Patrol.

Science Art: Mauna Loa Northeast Rift Zone Eruption – November 28, 2022, Civil Air Patrol

11 December 2022 grant 0

Rivers of lava glow a burning orange, sending white plumes up from a black stone landscape. This is a photograph of Hawaii – a place usually seen as a sort of paradise on Earth –… Read the rest “Science Art: Mauna Loa Northeast Rift Zone Eruption – November 28, 2022, Civil Air Patrol”

Comets from the Milky Way’s other arms helped form Earth’s continents.

19 September 2022 grant 0

Science News winds back the astronomical clock to the early days of Planet Earth, when waves of comet collisions seem to have slammed the planet’s solid crust into shape in a regularly… Read the rest “Comets from the Milky Way’s other arms helped form Earth’s continents.”

SONG: Like Lava Made of Water

24 April 2022 grant 0

SONG: “Like Lava Made of Water”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Science 17 Apr 2022, “Icy Volcanos on Pluto Could Be Sign of Underground Ocean,” as used in the post Pluto… Read the rest “SONG: Like Lava Made of Water”

Drilling for magma.

16 September 2021 grant 0

Science reports on an Icelandic project going to a whole new level – they’re following the Krafla Volcano’s path and digging beyond the Earth’s crust into magma… Read the rest “Drilling for magma.”

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