A rover crawls over rocky terrain on Spain's Canary Island of Lanzarote, also known as the island of a thousand volcanoes. A drone follows it closely from the sky as the Sun sets.
Space Exploration
Nov 22, 2017
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A dozen aircraft dropped water and fire retardant as crews worked in steep terrain Tuesday to battle a blaze near an historic observatory and communications towers on Mount Wilson northeast of Los Angeles.
Environment
Oct 17, 2017
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Analysis of Martian meteorites has uncovered 90 million years' worth of new information about one of the red planet's volcanoes – and helped pinpoint which volcano the meteorites came from.
Space Exploration
Oct 4, 2017
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In a new feasibility study, a Swiss-German team of scientists with the participation of Jens Turowski, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam—GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, shows how erosive processes can be visualized by ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2016
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Little auks forage in the same areas off East Greenland—the continental shelf and its edge—regardless of whether sea ice is present or absent, according to a study published July 20, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ...
Ecology
Jul 20, 2016
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In Colombia, large areas are teeming with mines that are almost impossible to detect with traditional methods. In collaboration with partners from South America, engineers at the German Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Technical ...
Engineering
Mar 18, 2016
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The only known wild jaguar in the United States is seen roaming around a creek and other parts of a mountain range in southern Arizona in the first publicly released video of the giant cat.
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2016
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This block of martian terrain, etched with an intricate pattern of landslides and wind-blown dunes, is a small segment of a vast labyrinth of valleys, fractures and plateaus.
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2016
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The sandy and rocky terrain of the Sahara desert in central Algeria was captured in this image by the Sentinel-2A satellite.
Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2015
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An unconventional research method allows for a new look at geologic features on Earth, revealing that some of the things we see on Mars and other planets may not be what they seem.
Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2015
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