News tagged with mount rainier

NASA's next Mars rover to land at Gale Crater (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater.

Jul 22, 2011 | 5 / 5 (8) | 5 |

As Rainier's glaciers recede, debris chokes rivers

The fallout from Mount Rainier's shrinking glaciers is beginning to roll downhill, and nowhere is the impact more striking than on the volcano's west side.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jan 07, 2010 | 3.9 / 5 (8) | 6

Scientists Study 'Glaciovolcanoes,' Mountains of Fire and Ice, in Iceland, British Columbia, U.S.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Glaciovolcanoes, they're called, these rumbling mountains where the orange-red fire of magma meets the frozen blue of glaciers.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Apr 23, 2010 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0 |