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• Starship Earth

  
  techviva — Authority: 496
  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”

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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: 736
  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: 736
  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: 736
  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?

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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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• EARTH SCIENCE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES INDIA-NGRI HYDERABAD-SCIENTIST JOB POSTINGS

  
  BABU JOBS — Authority: 139
  National Geophysical Research Institute Hyderabad Scientist Recruitment November 2009NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE(Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)HYDERABAD-500007 ADVERTISEMENT No. NGRI- 4 / 2009 National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), a premier Research Institute under Council of ...
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• Coastal change and saving sand - the state of the art

  
  Through The Sandglass — Authority: 112
    In my talk earlier this week, Ten Things We Dont Know About Sand , number 6 was "How coasts work." Now of course we know the basics, but coastal systems are so complex and dynamic that the details elude us. I used my postcards of French sandbanks  and the fascinating work of Rob Holman at Oregon State ...
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• i be on that kryptonite…

  
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  direct from Earth Science class, this is a pretty new video from Vladislav Delay for his song Toive. watching it kind of makes my nose burn for some reason. Vladislav Delay – Toive from Lorenzo Sportiello on Vimeo .
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• Global Warming Caused Radical North Sea Change

  
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  Fueled by previously unappreciated links between climate and ecology, the North Sea has undergone a radical ecological shift in the last half-century, say scientists. The very shape of the food web has changed, from plankton on up to the cod and flatfish that once dominated the icy waters, supporting rich commercial ...
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