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Data collected by the NASA Dawn space probe indicated a short time ago that Vesta – its mission target and the largest asteroid in the solar system – houses the largest mountain ever discovered. Now, new data show the landscape feature from a different perspective.
The mountain on Vesta is roughly 13 ... |
11 October 2011
03:47 GMT |
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Earlier this year, a panel made up of mission managers and scientists decided that the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity will land in Gale Crater. This location was selected because of the huge scientific returns it promises to deliver.
As visible in this image gallery, the central region of the c... |
4 October 2011
08:58 GMT |
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The latest data sent to Earth by the NASA Dawn space probe – currently in orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta – indicate that a massive mountain exists on the object's southern hemisphere. In addition, the spacecraft also found an unexpected level of geological diversity on the object.
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4 October 2011
08:45 GMT |
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This amazing image, snapped on July 25, 2011, shows the top of the Alps mountain range covered in a massive blanket of stratocumulus clouds, which appear puffy from a distance. The amazing vista evokes the greatness of nature and man's desire to conquer it.
The peak in the distance is the Jungfrau (German fo... |
28 September 2011
06:56 GMT |
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Looking at the stage that takes Le Tour de France from Gap to Pinerolo, you have to wonder what the race directors were thinking when putting it together as it's neither a mountain stage nor a hilly one with one big mountain smack in the middle and a small one about 15 kilometers before the finish.
One good t... |
20 July 2011
18:21 GMT |
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The mountains are upon us again and the stage finishes at altitude, meaning that fireworks are likely to happen and excitement will again be felt in Le Tour de France.Here are the mountains that the peloton will have to go over today: the Col de Portet-d’Aspet, the Col de la Core, the Col de Latrape, the Col d&... |
16 July 2011
18:21 GMT |
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In one of the first studies of its type ever conducted, researchers were able to discover a string of volcanoes underneath the frigid water of Antarctica. More than a dozen such volcanoes were found, of which some are still active. Others reach up to 3,000 meters (roughly 10,000 feet) in altitude, even though their e... |
13 July 2011
05:55 GMT |
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Yes, the Massif Central is not made of the highest peaks in France, but this eighth stage still manages to be a very different affair than the one before it, which was pretty much tailored for sprinters.
This time around, we have a lumpy stage one which has a Second Category climb before the finish and ends on the... |
9 July 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Google has made several updates to a couple of layers in Google Earth. The Mountains layer in Earth now has a lot more information on many mountain peaks around the world, including more details in the information window, Panoramio photos and even KML tours. The Water Bodies layer now contains hundreds of thousands o... |
11 April 2011
11:20 GMT |
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The mountain range containing the world's tallest peak is also one of the most important bastions of biodiversity in the world. This is why Eastern Himalayan nations have recently decided to adopt a common, unified plan of promoting adaptations to effects of climate change.The region is bound to get severely aff... |
31 January 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Isotopic ratio analyses conducted on old raindrops have revealed that the onset of a large wave of mountain building began more than 49 million years ago in British Columbia, Canada. The work also showed that the phenomenon then began rolling southwards, towards Mexico.
The ancient raindrops that were used to deri... |
18 December 2010
05:49 GMT |
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A new long-term investigation has revealed that global warming and climate change are having a profound effect on mountain vegetation, especially at low elevations. The research was carried out by scientists in the United States, who wanted to investigate how vegetation patterns changed on and around mountains over t... |
26 October 2010
03:11 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear the the mountains adorning the surface of the Saturnine moon Titan have no other possible origin than the shrinking of the celestial body itself.The new theory goes that, as the moon is getting cooler, it shrinks, and that its surface is following the overa... |
13 August 2010
03:16 GMT |
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Everyone knows that there are regions on our planet that are not exactly suited for human habitation. Others cannot even be visited due to their extreme conditions, while others are obviously there, but just beyond our reach. Perhaps the most important part of this last category is the underground mountain chain that... |
10 June 2010
10:57 GMT |
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High-mountain environments are just as unpredictable as they are beautiful, as all mountain-goers surely know. While it is indeed beautiful to climb the tallest peaks and camp there, that is also extremely dangerous, especially on mountains that have been deemed to exhibit a high degree of risk for humans. Near touri... |
3 May 2010
10:05 GMT |
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While mountains generally look like they've been there for ages, in some cases that's not true – at least as far as geology goes. Through the nature of their profession, geologists look at things that are, for instance, 120 million years old and say that they are fairly young. Such is the case with th... |
16 June 2009
09:04 GMT |
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The Gamburtsev mountain range is one of the most visited destinations in Antarctica, because it offers a rich ground for scientists to conduct a large series of experiments in the most varied of research fields. In one such experiment, scientists have used radars to map the terrain underneath the ices, and get a glim... |
4 June 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Searching for life outside our planet is not a very easy task, especially on account of the distance between ourselves and the next possibly populated world, but also because there exists a great possibility that all other life forms detected there could have a significantly different inner structure and organization... |
19 May 2009
01:52 GMT |
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According to new investigations, it would appear that the eastern part of the Andes, especially that in Colombia, is, in fact, much older than previously estimated. Newly collected data shows that the faults that started giving birth to the mountains in fact became active some 25 million years ago, rather than seven ... |
18 May 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Directly assessing the toughness of neutron stars spinning billions of light-years away is a physical impossibility for now, so Indiana University (IU) researcher Charles Horowitz, who is also a College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics professor, used supercomputer time at both the university and the ... |
7 May 2009
05:55 GMT |
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New scientific surveys have discovered that underneath Antarctica's massive ice sheet there is also a mountain chain comparable in size to the Alps. This new information could easily help scientists develop new maps for the region's floor configuration, and could lead in the future to a better understanding... |
25 February 2009
01:37 GMT |
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Those of you who got bored of climbing all the mountains on Earth might consider an exotic experience on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. I heard they've got some mighty good-looking mountains there. Well, the Cassini-Huygens probe has once again exceeded the expectations and done what no other space probe stu... |
20 December 2007
05:00 GMT |
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