Early crust on Mars may be more complex than previously thought—and it may even be similar to our own planet's original crust.
Planetary Sciences
Nov 4, 2022
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Researchers have observed seismic waves propagating along the surface of a planet other than Earth for the first time. The marsquakes that resulted from two large meteorites that hit Mars were recorded by NASA's InSight lander ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 27, 2022
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Researchers working in the Marsquake Service at ETH Zurich have been analyzing the measurements made by the NASA InSight mission's seismometer on one of our neighboring planets.
Planetary Sciences
Oct 27, 2022
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Scientists have made a fascinating new discovery about the formation of mineral deposits crucial to our transition to a 'green economy'.
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2022
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Professor Rais Latypov from the School of Geosciences at Wits University and his research team have found field evidence for the existence of a 5-km-thick totally molten chamber within the ancient crust of South Africa. This ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2022
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Steel rusts by water and air on the Earth's surface. But what about deep inside the Earth's interior?
Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2022
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"To see a world in a grain of sand," the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used phrase that also captures some of what geologists do.
Planetary Sciences
Aug 24, 2022
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The harder you hit something—a ball, a walnut, a geode—the more likely it is to break open. Or, if it does not break open, it's more likely to at least lose a little bit of its structural integrity, the way new baseball ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 17, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Bristol and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth's crust, formed over millions ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 3, 2022
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A novel three-dimensional model of the fluid stored deep in Earth's crust along the Cascadia Subduction Zone provides new insight into how the accumulation and release of those fluids may influence seismic activity in the ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 14, 2022
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