Maybe the Earth had a ring like Saturn once…
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 […]
geology
SONG: Oceans Under Mars
SONG: “Oceans Under Mars” [Download] . (WAV version here [Download] .) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: PhysOrg, 12 Aug 2024, “Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. […]
Science Art: Smithsonite, from the Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History.
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 […]
Climate change affects the Earth’s rotation more than the Moon does.
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 […]
Curiosity finds some exciting times on Mars.
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 […]
Science Art: Earth by Henry De la Beche, from Researches in Theoretical Geology, 1834.
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 […]
SONG: Fine Altar Stone
SONG: “Fine Altar Stone” [Download] . (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on IFL Science, 25 Sep 2023, “The Stonehenge Altar Stone Didn’t […]
Stonehenge’s altar is not like the other stones.
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 […]
Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.
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 […]
Science Art: Mauna Loa Northeast Rift Zone Eruption – November 28, 2022, Civil Air Patrol
Rivers of lava glow a burning orange, sending white plumes up from a black stone landscape. This is a photograph of Hawaii – a place […]
Comets from the Milky Way’s other arms helped form Earth’s continents.
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 […]
SONG: Like Lava Made of Water
SONG: “Like Lava Made of Water” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science 17 Apr 2022, “Icy Volcanos on Pluto Could Be Sign of Underground Ocean,” […]
Drilling for magma.
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 […]
Science Art: Circular Twilight Halo at Sunrise (Kreisförmiger Dämmerungsschein Bei Sonnenaufgang) by Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche, 1884
A soft and beautiful drawing of distant, unimaginable destruction. Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche was a naturalist in Hereroland (now Namibia) when he painted this watercolor in […]
Science Art: Geologic Map of Jezero Crater and the Nili Planum Region, Mars (Scientific Investigations Map 3464), by Vivian Sun and Kathryn Stack.
Click to embiggen This is a colorful map (literally called a mosaic!) of the area where Perseverance landed, only from a little higher up. You […]