Severe environmental crises led to a series of large-scale extinction events in the Jurassic period 178-186 million years (myr) ago. The turmoil has been ascribed to the abundant release of volcanic gases, but the temporal ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2022
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On January 15, the volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai devastated the nation of Tonga. The eruption triggered tsunamis as far afield as the Caribbean and generated atmospheric waves that traveled around the globe several times. ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2022
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Perseverance is adding a pop of color to Mars' regular repertoire: purple.
Planetary Sciences
Mar 24, 2022
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The Apollo missions to the Moon brought a total of 2,196 rock samples to Earth. But NASA has only just started opening one of the last ones, collected 50 years ago.
Planetary Sciences
Mar 11, 2022
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It looks like the Perseverance rover has an unwanted passenger, a rock stuck inside one of its wheels. The image of the stone was selected by public input as the "Image of the Week" for Week 54 (Feb. 20–26, 2022) of the ...
Space Exploration
Mar 9, 2022
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Climate change can affect life on Earth. According to new research, it can also affect the dead.
Earth Sciences
Mar 8, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China and one each from Canada and Germany, has found data from the Chinese Mars rover Zhurong over its first 60 sols, showing evidence of wind erosion and possibly ...
The rapid development of fauna 540 million years ago has permanently changed the Earth—deep into its lower mantle. A team led by ETH researcher Andrea Giuliani found traces of this development in rocks from this zone.
Earth Sciences
Mar 7, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in France and one in Germany has found that chondrite-analog materials can undergo chemical alteration processes at sub-zero temperatures. In their paper published ...
Researchers at Yale and Caltech have a bold new theory to explain how Earth transformed itself from a fiery, carbon-clouded ball of rocks into a planet capable of sustaining life.
Earth Sciences
Mar 2, 2022
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