It’s a combo of unique volcanic aggregate and unusual chemical interactions over millennia
Rainy years can’t make up for California’s groundwater use
And without additional restrictions, they may not recover for several decades.
A sublime landscape: New model explains Pluto’s lumpy plains
The convection thought to drive the area’s geology may come from cooling, not heat.
Scientists use seismic noise to image first hundred meters of Mars
Mars’ winds create enough noise to see what’s underneath the InSight lander.
Terrawatch: supercontinents and the search for habitable planets
Models of how the Earth could look in 250m years, with huge land masses and longer days, can help exoplanet huntersIt’s unlikely humans will be around to see it, but in about 250m years Earth’s land masses will have moved together to form the next supe…
Ore You Going To Eat That?
Baby Starfish by A. Jarrett (cc by-nc-nd)Today in Weird Science!: A handy guide to the rocks and minerals of Minecraft, teensy little cannibals who eat their own siblings for their own survival, and hot, hot, sweaty manikins.(Hey, it’s Weird Science th…
Never try to hold lava in your hands, especially not in the real world.
A handy guide to the rocks and minerals of Minecraft. (SL labor of love from Jolyon Ralph of Mindat.org, “the world’s largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from.”)
Red planet has a big core, complex crust
Seismograph on NASA’s InSight lander is slowly imaging the Martian interior.