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Mar 16 | News
Images from the recent flyby of Phobos—a proposed landing for an upcoming mission—were captured on the rarely seen “dark side” of the Martian moon thanks to the highly elliptical orbit of the Mars Express that takes outside the moon’s path. The images were also taken as part of the High Resolution Stereo Camera experiment.
Mar 10 | News
Ancient tropical rocks that now reside in the remote northern reaches of Canada tell the tale: about 716.5 million years ago the Earth lay bound in a layer of ice that limited life to eukaryotes. Strangely, this glaciation—history’s most extensive at 5 million years, say researchers at NSF and Harvard—occurred at about the same time that animals appear in the fossil record.
Mar 9 | News
It’s been a busy time for seismologists, but massive earthquakes also provides work for experts in civil engineering, urban planning, architecture, geography, and social support. The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute had just published its team report of the magnitude 7.0 quake in Haiti when the Chilean city of Concepción was moved 10 feet to the west by the most recent 8.8 magnitude earthquake.
Mar 5 | News
According to findings by Univ. of Rochester researchers who visited sites in Africa known to contain extremely old rocks, the Earth’s magnetic field 3.5 billion years ago was only half as strong as it is today. This may mean the Sun took away much of Earth’s hydrogen and water.
Mar 4 | News
Scientists at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have found evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near Antarctica, formerly a blank spot on the map for researchers wanting to learn more about seafloor formation and the bizarre life forms drawn to these extreme environments.
Jan 28 | News
Vacant coal mines in southwest Indiana could once again generate energy, not from coal, but from the water reservoirs now found on their surface and deep underground. That is the objective of Purdue Univ. geologists studying how to transform old strip and shaft mines into new sources of geothermal power.
Jan 27 | News
Similar in size and bulk composition characteristics, Ganymede and Callisto are famously but inexplicably different in appearance. Southwest Research Institute scientists now say differences in the dynamics of cometary impacts on each moon about 3.8 billion years ago sent their futures into wildly different directions.
Jan 26 | News
Digging into a rock named Marquette Island perched on a rippled Martian plain, the rover Opportunity is helping scientist examine a geological curiosity that differs from any other mineral yet found. It may have originated from deep under the planet’s crust, and could tell us more about the Red Planet’s formation.
Jan 18 | RDBlog
Connectedness is not a luxury—it’s a tool for survival because it stimulates response. Haitians and their loved ones see the direct benefits in efforts by Google to provide up-to-minute news on the whereabouts of individuals. And, more indirectly, the rapid giving model is accelerating philanthropy in ravaged lands.
Jan 13 | News
It’s been more than 200 years since Haiti was struck by a major earthquake, but the circumstances of yesterday's quake contributed to the great loss of life. The epicenter, just 10 miles from Port-au-Prince and a mere 6.2 miles underground, wreaked havoc on the country's capital. Also, a low degree of slippage between the Caribbean and North American plates, experts say, gave no indication that an earthquake of this magnitude was imminent.