Plumes seen reaching high above the surface of Mars are causing a stir among scientists studying the atmosphere on the Red Planet.
Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2015
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Earth's magnetic field protects and makes our planet habitable by stopping harmful high-energy particles from space, including from the Sun. The source of this magnetic field is the core at the centre of our planet.
Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2019
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Victor Camp has spent a lifetime studying volcanic eruptions all over the world, starting in Saudi Arabia, then Iran, and eventually the Pacific Northwest. The geology lecturer finds mantle plumes that feed the largest of ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 6, 2019
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Electrically charged volcanic ash short-circuited Earth's atmosphere in 1815, causing global poor weather and Napoleon's defeat, says new research.
Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2018
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The hotspots that created volcanic islands such as those of Hawaii, Iceland and the Galapagos Islands may often prove surprisingly cool, a new study finds.
Earth Sciences
Jan 7, 2022
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On Earth, shifting tectonic plates reshuffle the planet's surface and make for a dynamic interior, so the absence of such processes on Mars led many to think of it as a dead planet, where not much happened in the past 3 billion ...
Astronomy
Dec 5, 2022
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Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2022
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Methane emissions created by volcanic activity burning buried fossil fuel deposits could have played a major role in the global warming that triggered the largest mass extinction event in Earth's history, a new study suggests.
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2022
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Bringing fresh insight into long-standing debates about how powerful geological forces shape the planet, from earthquake ruptures to mountain formations, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2011
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Researchers have shown that human-caused climate change will have important consequences for how volcanic gases interact with the atmosphere.
Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2021
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