Mashable discusses the discovery at Johns Hopkins of microbes that are hardy enough to have traveled across the vacuum of space and then survived the planet-breaking force of an asteroid… Read the rest “Life that can survive a full-on asteroid impact.”
IFL Science has a new explanation of “The Great Unconformity,” a worldwide phenomenon in which about a billion years of rock deposits are just missing, everywhere around … Read the rest “A new explanation for the missing billion years in Earth’s geologic record.”
The Planetary Science Institute reports on what space missions have learned from studying a strange, sinuous series of formations on the surface of Mars that resemble the curves and folds… Read the rest ““Brain coral terrain” tells a story of Martian history.”
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:
… Read the rest “Far side of the moon’s fiery past.”The Chang’e 6 mission launched in early
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”
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”. (WAV version here.)
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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”
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.”
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.”
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:
… Read the rest “Curiosity finds some exciting times on Mars.”Although Mars today is 1,000
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”. (available as .ogg here)
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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”
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.”
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.”
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”
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