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Using data from the Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC) instrument aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Venus Express orbiter, scientists have recently determined that the geology present at the planet's equator is more geochemically advanced than researchers first suspected.
This is the first scientific st... |
23 May 2012
04:29 GMT |
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Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers, from the European Space Agency (ESA), was recently able to snap an impressive view of Richat structure, in Mauritania, as the International Space Station was flying above West Africa, over the Sahara Desert.
The formation, which is not a lava crater, looks mesmerizing in this new imag... |
27 March 2012
04:49 GMT |
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) may receive a budget of $1.1 billion (€840 million) for Fiscal Year 2013. The President's 2013 budget request is about $34.5 million above 2012 levels, an increase that reflects the high performances that the federal agency displayed this year.
Studies such as th... |
14 February 2012
03:14 GMT |
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As winter on the Red Planet prepares to descend over Opportunity's current location, mission managers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), are continuously planning how to use the rover without draining it of its energy. A solution would be for the machine to analyze the planet's interior.Such studi... |
20 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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In a new image the NASA Dawn spacecraft collected of the giant asteroid Vesta, the geological layers and ingredients that make up the space rock are made clearly visible. The false-color photo depicts the protoplanet in never-before-seen detail.
The photo has a resolution of 480 meters per pixel, and was captured u... |
6 December 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Since the 1960s, orbiters and rovers that flew to Mars have been observing geological features called rilles in a region of the planet called Hesperia Planum. Even now, researchers can't say for sure where these features originated, or how they came to be.
The best way to describe rilles is as series of narro... |
13 October 2011
08:12 GMT |
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Since arriving in orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta, in mid-July this year, the NASA Dawn space probe changed two observations orbits. This allowed it to compile interesting maps of the largest asteroid in our solar system, showing it to be more geologically diverse than researchers first estimated.
The large ... |
4 October 2011
04:56 GMT |
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While conducting investigations into the sediment layers on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean, a team of geologists identified a submerged landscape that hints at the lost city of Atlantis. As evidenced by the attached image, this portion of the ocean floor looks as if it once was a plain above the waves. It feat... |
11 July 2011
03:24 GMT |
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A group of experts is proposing the creation of a new spacecraft that would fly to Mars, which would use technologies cannibalized from a number of other missions that already visited the Red Planet. Originally, the new project was called the Geophysical Monitoring Station (GMS), but now there's no name attached... |
24 June 2011
02:43 GMT |
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Scientists with the American space agency believe they may have uncovered direct evidence that one of our neighboring planets, more precisely Venus, is still geologically active. Evidence to the contrary have been the norm for many years, so these conclusions are bound to stir up some controversy.No space expert had ... |
11 February 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Over the past few years, evidence has been mounting that the Red Planet once featured flowing water on its surface, as well as a large ocean in its northern hemisphere. Now, a new study shows that reservoirs of liquid water may exist right beneath the surface.The international science group that conducted the investi... |
29 November 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Over the past few years, planetary scientists and geologists have become convinced that an ocean of liquid water once existed on the Red Planet. A new study now proposes an interesting explanation for how the body of water may have developed. According to investigators at the Tucson, Arizona-based Planetary Scie... |
23 October 2010
06:48 GMT |
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Researchers have recently developed an impressive geological map of the Schrödinger Basin on the surface of the Moon, one of the most renowned features our natural satellite has. Now, the landscape feature features a new, camouflage-colored appearance, which allows geologists to make more sense of the changes th... |
31 August 2010
10:55 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that the renowned Yangtze River, one of China's two most important bodies of flowing water, is considerably older than first estimated. In previous researches, it was determined that the river was about 5 million years old, but new data seem to indicate that t... |
4 June 2010
07:08 GMT |
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Scientists were recently able to determine that the entire island of Greenland is rising extremely fast from the waters. They say that losing its ice sheets, icebergs and caps makes the land a lot lighter. With this massive weight removed, the land is soaring upwards at rates of up to 1 inch per year. In geological t... |
19 May 2010
02:48 GMT |
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For the last two hundred years, humans have conducted numerous modifications to the planet, and have released vast amounts of various chemicals into the air and the water, in a bid to make their lives more comfortable. But the changes they inflicted may be ushering in a new geological time period, a group of renowned... |
15 April 2010
05:52 GMT |
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Using data collected recently by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Venus Express orbiter, researchers determined that the surface of our neighboring planet may still exhibit signs of volcanic activity. Hot spots of eruption and gas release may exist at several locations throughout Venus, the team behind the new ... |
9 April 2010
03:23 GMT |
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The last year or so was a very intense period, with many missions to the planet's natural satellite discovering water deposits on the Moon. Granted, they are stored as water-ice, in craters that never see the light of day, but they are there nonetheless. In addition, even rocks collected by astronauts from the A... |
10 March 2010
05:05 GMT |
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One of the most accurate sources of information that geologists have on a planet's past is its geological record, defined as the layers of rock that can be found underground at various depths. As the Earth, for example, undergoes changes and experiences volcanism, cometary impacts and tectonic movements, traces ... |
12 February 2010
02:28 GMT |
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Pieces of evidence that the Red Planet was at one point partially covered in water are now beginning to mount considerably. Nearly all new scientific pictures sent back by instruments around or on Mars show signs of erosion, or other types of water-related geological degradation. Recently, Planetary Science Institute... |
16 December 2009
11:00 GMT |
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In spite of their massive observation capacities, today's telescopes are still limited in the amount of data they can observe. There are structures obscured or partially out of sight and analyzing them is just as important to our knowledge of the Universe as looking at the way the Sun works. But the process can ... |
24 November 2009
04:37 GMT |
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After more than seven years of efforts poured into this initiative, experts can now finally boast the first geological map of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This is only the third moon in the solar system to get such an “honor,” in addition to the Moon, and Jupiter's cratered Callisto. The detailed do... |
16 September 2009
03:32 GMT |
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After carefully assessing a large number of landscape features on the surface of Mars, astronomers and geologists have concluded that the recent past of our neighboring planet was a lot more wetter than it is now. Admittedly, there is currently no liquid water to be found, but billions of years ago, rivers and deltas... |
30 June 2009
06:41 GMT |
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It's widely accepted in the scientific community that a massive extinction event took place on Earth between the Permian and the Triassic periods, wiping up almost 90 percent of both marine and land species and driving the ancestors of dinosaurs to the brink of extinction. Now, a team of researchers is seeking t... |
3 March 2009
09:40 GMT |
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We now know for a fact that liquid water once existed on Mars and that it's now gone in almost all regions of the planet. Ice still exists in the polar areas, where massive sheets, up to 95 percent pure, can still be found under a thin layer of dust and rock sediments. But the Martian atmosphere is altogether to... |
3 March 2009
02:21 GMT |
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Finding the correct areas in which endangered animal species can live is no easy task, just as delimiting those regions and turning them into reservations can sometimes prove to be very difficult. This all happens on account of poor mapping techniques, as most geologists still rely on old-fashioned methods to compile... |
12 February 2009
06:35 GMT |
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The natural abilities that peridotite rocks have are no secret to scientists, as researches pointed to their potential years ago. At the time, harnessing the power of the rocks was deemed as a too costly project and the initiative was abandoned. Currently, geologists showed that peridotite doesn't have to be tra... |
6 November 2008
04:35 GMT |
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A team of geologists conducting research in Russia uncovered even more parts of an ancient Ice Age lake. Over 10.000 years ago, enormous glacial lakes covered portions of North America and Russia. One of them, called Lake Agassiz, existed over present Minnesota and Canada. Greater than California, back then it ... |
11 September 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Earth, unlike the other rocky planets in the solar system, is extremely geologically active, constantly shifting and remodeling the surface through plate tectonics shifts, volcanic eruptions and erosion, and mountains formation. This basically means that any evidence of old meteorite and asteroid impacts are mostly h... |
14 April 2008
08:30 GMT |
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Five hundred million years ago, the Earth had a single supercontinent, Gondwana, located in the southern hemisphere, but one hundred and eighty million years ago it suddenly split. Different pieces of Gondwana started moving apart from each other, thus creating the seven continents we know today. The mystery of why t... |
21 March 2008
07:26 GMT |
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In the 19th century, scientists discovered that the rocks with fossils are deposited in a defined stratigraphical order, an this is how Paleontology emerged. Already in 1761, Giovanni Arduino saw that the rocks could be assigned to ages: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary. In 1829, J. Desnoyers added the Quaternary.Tod... |
10 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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