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Major Tectonic Plates of Earth

2017-10-17T14:00:00Z

Tectonic plates are parts of Earth’s crust and uppermost mantle, comprising the lithosphere.

Every Recorded Meteorite Impact on Earth

2014-04-08T13:34:00Z

Ramon Martinez of Health Intelligence created this Tableau viz displaying every registered meteorite that has impacted on Earth. A total of 34,513 meteorites has been registered, most of them (33,277 meteorites, 96% of total) with a mass less than 10Kgs.

High-speed solar winds increase lightning strikes on Earth

2014-06-02T10:22:00Z

Scientists have discovered new evidence to suggest that lightning on Earth is triggered not only by cosmic rays from space, but also by energetic particles from the Sun

Africa and Australasia to share Square Kilometre Array

How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets

2019-07-04T09:20:00Z

Earth’s nearest neighbours have turned into uninhabitable hellholes. Understanding their transformation will teach us which rocky exoplanets might be fit for life

The Himalaya ‘breathes,’ with mountains growing and shrinking in cycles

2021-05-14T12:31:00Z

Deciphering these geologic respirations can help scientists untangle earthquake risks and pin down the range’s deadly potential.

NASA's EPIC View of 2017 Eclipse Across America

2019-05-20T14:19:00Z

From a million miles out in space, NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured 12 natural color images of the moon’s shadow crossing over North America on Aug. 21, 2017.

Video - Juno spacecraft sends images from Jupiter

2019-05-20T16:02:00Z

JunoCam is the “citizen science” camera on board Juno. As the spacecraft orbits Jupiter, JunoCam snaps pictures of the planet from different angles and radial distances, targeting features identified in part through the collaborative efforts of the amateur astronomer community.

The Causes of Climate Change

2019-05-17T14:42:00Z

Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the “greenhouse effect”1 — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping. Long-lived gases that remain semi-permanently in the atmosphere ...

NASA: | Citizen Scientists: Data for the World

2019-05-20T14:14:00ZSponsored by Roche Diagnostics

JunoCam is the “citizen science” camera on board Juno. As the spacecraft orbits Jupiter, JunoCam snaps pictures of the planet from different angles and radial distances, targeting features identified in part through the collaborative efforts of the amateur astronomer community.