Earth Science

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• Are Earth’s Oceans Made Of Extraterrestrial Material?

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 141
  From Science Daily : Contrary to preconceived notions, the atmosphere and the oceans were perhaps not formed from vapors emitted during intense volcanism at the dawning of our planet. Francis Albarède of the Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre (CNRS / ENS Lyon / Université Claude Bernard) suggests that water was ...
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• Underwater Glider Hunts, Records Cryptic Whales

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 769
  The mysterious beaked whale is the target of a new undersea glider trying to track the deep-diving mammals by their high-frequency clicks and squeals. A Seaglider unmanned underwater vehicle with an underwater microphone began patrolling the coast of Hawaii on October 27 and will finish up its initial mission on ...
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• T. Rex Finally Has a Buyer, We Just Don’t Know Who

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 769
  The Tyrannosaurus rex that was featured in a Las Vegas auction in October finally has a home. We just can’t tell you where. Samson, as the giant fossil is affectionately known, failed to fetch enough at the live auction to satisfy the owner. In October, Tom Lindgren, who curated the natural history auction for ...
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• Secret Math of Fly Eyes Could Overhaul Robot Vision

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 769
  By turning the brain cell activity underlying fly eyesight into mathematical equations, researchers have found an ultra-efficient method for pulling motion patterns from raw visual data. Though they built the system, the researchers don’t quite understand how it works. But however mysterious the equations may be, ...
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• Starship Earth

  
  techviva — Authority: 495
  Stars, constellations and the Earth can be very exciting to view and study. Starship Earth takes these things into the 3rd dimension. It is a beautiful work of art that also teaches how the sun rises and sets and how the seasons change. The 3D atlas also shows you the look of the stars as [...]
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• “So The Cosmos Can Know Itself”

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 474
  I have not much to say about this , except: Beauty. Via The Anchoress . Thank you, Ma’am. Thank you very much. No, wait, I do have a couple of things to say: The story of cosmology and evolution is the story told by the Stars and Stones, Cells and Bones. It is all one story, and its great power and beauty is ...
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• Drilling Into a Stirring Volcano Is (Probably) Safe

  
  80beats — Authority: 654
  A super-colossal volcanic eruption rocked Italy 39,000 years ago, and troubling signs at the site, now known as Campi Flegrei, have many scientists wondering when the next big one will hit. To probe the issue, so to speak, the Campi Flegrei Deep Drilling Project will drill nearly 2.5 miles down into the ...
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• Giant Asteroid Impact Could Have Stirred Entire Ocean

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 769
  The collision of a large extraterrestrial object with Earth almost 2 billion years ago may have stirred the seas worldwide and delivered a huge serving of oxygen to the deep ocean. The Sudbury impact, named after the Canadian city located near the center of what remains of the ancient crater, happened around 1.85 ...
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• Earth Live

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 734
  See the state of the planet through the eyes of scientific explorers and their amazing global data.
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• Wide Angle: Voyage to the Earths Core

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 734
  Despite being Earths most inaccessible place, the core is starting to give up deep, hot, powerful secrets.
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• Interview: Core Issues

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 734
  Its thousands of miles underground, beyond our reach. But Earths core is starting to give up its powerful secrets.
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• Do You Have Nature Deficit Disorder?

  
  Ephemeral Thoughts — Authority: 424
  I love coming across quotes that make me think about our place in the Cosmos and on this planet. Here are two that I really liked (plus a phrase that the blog author used is the title of mine): If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, ...
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• Looks good from above

  
  Mr. Barlow's Blog — Authority: 128
  An island is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. An atoll is an island of coral that partially or completely encircles a lagoon. Atafu ( Nasa image , Google maps ) is an atoll located in the south Pacific Ocean. The typical ring shape of the atoll is the result of coral reefs building up ...
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• New Ocean in Ethiopia Confirmed

  
  ::the open end:: — Authority: 134
  The show must go on. That’s the way it is with Earth. There’s no time for rest. Continents must continue to move at the same rate our fingernails grow. And ocean basins must continue to form. The earth is restless. It has a lot of shifting around and reorganizing to do while the sun still burns strong. ...
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• Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 769
  next image >> Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island from its sandy beaches, or a volcanic island from its towering peaks is wonderful, experiencing ...
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• A new ocean is forming

  
  Mr. Barlow's Blog — Authority: 128
  A giant crack in Africa formed in just days and could be the forerunner to a new ocean. The crack is the surface component of a continental rift forming as the Arabian and African  tectonic plates drift away from one another. Eventually it could reach the east coast of Ethiopia and fill up with seawater. ...
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• NASA DEVELOP program – Spring Application Deadline Nov 30, 2009

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 130
  NASA’s DEVELOP Program – 2010 Spring Session The DEVELOP program is a NASA Science Mission Directorate Applied Sciences program that fosters the training and development of students in the atmospheric and Earth sciences. The DEVELOP program extends the application of NASA Earth science research and technology to ...
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• A Crack Opens in the Ethiopian Landscape, Preparing the Way for a New Sea

  
  80beats — Authority: 654
  In 2005, the earth cracked open in Ethiopia. Two volcanic eruptions shook the desert, and a 35-mile-long rift opened in the land, measuring 20 feet wide in some places. Now a new study adds weight to the argument that the opening of this crack marks the first step in the formation of a new sea that may eventually ...
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• African Desert Rift Confirmed As New Ocean In The Making

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  New research confirms that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those at the bottom of the world’s oceans, and the rift is indeed likely the beginning of a new sea.In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some ...
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• Goodbye, snows of Kilimanjaro

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  The most recent survey among the ice fields atop Mount Kilimanjaro found that the ice atop Africas most famous mountain could be gone in twenty years—and maybe even sooner. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science the study was conducted by a team of researchers who first measured the ...
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