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”.
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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”
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.”
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 late… Read the rest “Science Art: Circular Twilight Halo at Sunrise (Kreisförmiger Dämmerungsschein Bei Sonnenaufgang) by Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche, 1884”
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This is a colorful map (literally called a mosaic!) of the area where Perseverance landed, only from a little higher up. You can see the pink semicircle of the crater, and… Read the rest “Science Art: Geologic Map of Jezero Crater and the Nili Planum Region, Mars (Scientific Investigations Map 3464), by Vivian Sun and Kathryn Stack.”
SONG: “Iron in the Sky”
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SOURCE: Based on Science News, 19 Nov 2020, “50 years ago, scientists named Earth’s magnetic field as a suspect in extinctions”… Read the rest “SONG: Iron in the Sky”
Major John Wesley Powell was a soldier and explorer, a geologist and a professor who led the first government expedition down the Grand Canyon – traveling part of… Read the rest “Science Art: Major John Wesley Powell’s Boat, the Emma Dean, 1871.”
SONG: “Adria”.
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SOURCE: Science, 6 September 2019, “Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe,” as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: Adria”
An image from an 1868 book, On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata, which was the subject of a collection in the Public Domain Review.
The geometry of this geology is marvelous. I … Read the rest “Science Art: Lower Bagshot Clays, Nr. Wareham, 1868”
Science reveals the Atlantis-like story of Greater Adria, a continent the size of Greenland that vanished 140 million years ago, not under the sea but below the slowly moving continent … Read the rest “Geologists explore a lost continent hidden under Southern Europe.”
SONG: “Built on Sand”.
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SOURCE: Nature, 2 July 2019, “Time is running out for sand,” as used in the post “We’re running out of…… Read the rest “SONG: Built On Sand”
Nature says that our need for silicon – the main substance in computer chips, as well as glass windows, bottles, and things like bricks and mortar – could actually threaten … Read the rest “We’re running out of… sand?”
But can we navigate by it? Science News reports on the new finding that, like birds, humans appear to have “magnetoreception abilities,” sensing directions by detecting … Read the rest “People can sense the Earth’s magnetic field.”
Science Daily invites us to the opening chapter of an alien invasion story, as international researchers explain how they just found a 31-kilometer-wide crater from an ancient meteorite… Read the rest “Giant impact crater discovered under Greenland’s ice.”
This is the earth under a stream inside a forest in Iowa, with all the trees and the water digitally removed. Or rather, with just the earth showing – thanks to the radar-like… Read the rest “Science Art: Lidar-derived digital surface and elevation models of a stream channel, by the USGS”
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