You might have heard, like many Discovery News readers, of the weird moving rocks of Death Valley – the ones with the long, curving trails behind them. No one’s ever seen how … Read the rest “Moving rocks caught on camera.”
Nature offers one of the least comforting explanations for a mysterious hole in Siberia. It wasn’t from an asteroid or a rogue telephone-pole-installing crew. The 30-meter-wide… Read the rest “Mysterious crater explained. Not that it helps….”
Nature shares satellite data that shows not only lakes, rivers and reservoirs shrinking across the whole U.S. Southwest, but even water underground is going away:
… Read the rest “The West is drying up.”To track groundwater
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From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28.
It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of Australian rock like jam in a sandwich.… Read the rest “Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.”
This is the EROS image of the week, because the U.S. Geological Survey believes in science-as-art, too.
Nature looks at the widening gap in understanding earthquake lights… not a gap in our knowledge, but in the ground, as fault lines pull apart to create eerie lights before quakes: … Read the rest “Earthquake lights go deeper”
That space rock that blew up over the Urals (and was captured on a few different cameras)… well, BBC reports that they’ve just hauled a 5-foot-long fragment out of Russia’s… Read the rest “Remember that exploding meteorite? They just found a half-ton chunk of it.”
These are probably the world’s largest petroglyphs. They’re ancient rock carvings that we can see from space.
You can’t make out the funky checkerboards, or the hummingbirds… Read the rest “Science Art: Nazca Lines, Peru, 2000, NASA’s Earth as Art”
OK, well, instant veins of gold, at least. The gold, Nature says, is in the ground already. But it takes an earthquake to make it mine-able in a flash:
… Read the rest “Earthquakes make instant gold.”Scientists have long known that veins
New Scientist opens wide to tell us Mars Rover Curiosity is ready to drill into the Red Planet:
… Read the rest “Hello, Mars! This won’t hurt a bit.”Chemical analysis from one of the rover’s remote-sensing cameras shows that the veins
And let me tell you, Nature is none too pleased:
… Read the rest “Italy imprisons seismologists for failing at earthquake warning.”The meeting was unusually quick, and was followed by a press conference at which the Civil Protection Department and local authorities reassured
You remember Lake Vostok, yes? The Antarctic lake where scientists pulled up some water from 20 million years ago, just to see what things might have survived? Well, New Scientist says, … Read the rest “Lake Vostok is still and lifeless. Perhaps.”
Once again, New Scientist delivers a headline I can’t beat. A statue the Nazis brought to Germany from Tibet has been found to have been made of stuff from space:
… Read the rest “Buddhist “Iron Man” found by Nazis is from space.”Known as the ‘iron man’,
Yep. Scientific American has more on the unmanned aircraft that NASA and the USGS is using to explore the alien landscape of northeastern California:
… Read the rest “Flying robot maps Surprise Valley”Yesterday marked the first day of the
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This image is from the Earth As Art 3 collection, and shows the Great Salt Desert of Iran, the Dasht-e Kavir, as seen from space.
It’s a nearly 30,000 square … Read the rest “Science Art: Spilled Paint, Landsat 7, 2003.”
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