View of hillocks on the slopes of Mount Sharp, showing the various types of terrain that will soon be explored by the Curiosity rover, and…
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Active bedrock seepage with yellow-brown weathering fluids; Lushan – Taiwan. Credit: Kristen Cook (GFZ) Weathering of rocks can bind or release carbon dioxide — in…
Electron micrograph of a Concordia micrometeorite extracted from Antarctic snow at Dome C. Credit: © Cécile Engrand/Jean Duprat Every year, our planet encounters dust from…
Ecological reconstruction of Pelretes vivificus vesting angiosperm flowers in the Burmese amber forest (~99 Ma). Credit: Artwork by Mr. Jie Sun An amber fossil of…
An artist’s rendering of Earth during the Archean eon, with a hazy atmosphere, few landmasses and a global ocean. Credit: Alec Brenner, Harvard University Earth’s…
A view from the “Kimberley” formation on Mars taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover. The strata in the foreground dip towards the base of Mount Sharp,…
Mocked up illustration of touchdown impact on Antarctica. Credit: Mark A. Garlick Research led by the University of Kent’s School of Physical Sciences has found…
The archaeological site at a rock shelter in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert: More than 100,000 years ago, people used the so-called Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter…
Photo of Greenland’s Ice sheet. Credit: Joshua Brown, University of Vermont For the first time ever, researchers have found fossils under Greenland’s ice sheet that…
This cartoon shows a subducting oceanic plate traveling like a conveyor belt from the surface down to the lower mantle. The white arrows show the…
A graphical summary of Earth’s supercontinents/supercratons. Credit: Modified from D. A. D. Evans, Z. X. Li and J. B. Murphy, Geological Society, London, Special Publications,…
Wing of the new species Okanagrion hobani, from the McAbee fossil site in British Columbia, a damselfly-like insect of the new suborder Cephalozygoptera. Credit: Copyright…
3.5 billion-year-old barite (bottom) with fossilized microbial mat (top). This barite is part of the Dresser Formation in NW Australia. Credit: Helge Missbach A research…
An illustration showing how a combination of static high-pressure synthesis techniques and dynamic methods enabled the researchers to probe the magnesium silicate bridgmanite, believed to…
Ancient kauri tree log from Ngawha, New Zealand. Credit: Nelson Parker Radiocarbon measurements on the remains of 42,000-year-old New Zealand kauri trees provide the basis…
Nearly 42,000 years ago, when Earth’s magnetic fields reversed, this triggered major environmental changes, extinction events, and long-term changes in human behavior, a new study…
A transmitted light view through a 200-micron section of a peridotite sample, showing the three main minerals — olivine (clear-green), orthopyroxene (grey-green) and garnet (pink).…
Engraving of Giraffes near Gobero in Niger, ca. 8,000 yrs old, witness green times in the desert. Credit: Mike Hettwer, 2006, www.hettwer.com Past River Activity…
In research that may eventually help crops survive drought, scientists at Princeton University have uncovered a key reason that mixing material called hydrogels with soil…
The colorful banded Tepees are part of the Blue Mesa Member, a geological feature about 220 million to 225 million years old in the Chinle…