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Scientists find missing link in Yellowstone plumbing
This giant volcano is very much alive
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For “smaller” eruptions, Yellowstone can wake up quickly
Even after a 220,000-year break, the caldera can get rolling in just a few years. By Scott K. Johnson.
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The Supervolcano Under Yellowstone is Alive and Kicking
The wind shifts. The stench of rotten eggs makes it nearly impossible to breathe and the hot fog clouds my view. I hold my breath and close my eyes, imagining the fog growing thicker, crushing me. Then without warning the wind clears and I’m enveloped once again in the cold, dry air. The heat feels like a lost dream. I shiver as I analyze my surroundings.
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Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon – and these pictures show a surprisingly complex and violent history.
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Flying Over Charon: A Battered but Beautiful Moon [VIDEO]
Thanks to the New Horizon spacecraft, humanity has been granted a close-and-personal peek at the rugged surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, for the first time in history. However, when getting to know an alien world, pictures aren't enough, right? Now NASA has upped the experience, providing an opportunity for the public to fly over the surface of the mysterious moon.
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Earth is actually two planets, scientists conclude
The early Earth was mixed with a baby planet called Theia following a head on collision 4.5 billion years ago, scientists have found. By Sarah Knapton.
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Dramatic change in the moon’s tilt may help us trace the origin of water on Earth
Astronomers have found evidence that the axis that the moon spins around shifted billions of years ago due to changes in the moon's internal structure. The research could help explain the strange distribution of water ice near the lunar poles.... It could also help us pinpoint craters that have been shadowed for so long that they contain water ice from early in the solar system. By Mahesh Anand.
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200 years ago, we endured a 'year without a summer'
Snow in June, freezing temperatures in July, a killer frost in August: "The most gloomy and extraordinary weather ever seen," according to one Vermont farmer. Two centuries ago, 1816 became the year without a summer for millions of people in parts of North America and Europe, leading to failed crops and near-famine conditions. While they didn't know the chill's cause at the time, scientists and historians now know that the biggest volcanic eruption in human history, on the other side of the world...
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Scientists discover magma buildup under New Zealand town
Scientists say they've discovered a magma buildup near a New Zealand town that explains a spate of recent earthquakes and could signal the beginnings of a new volcano—although they're not expecting an eruption anytime soon.
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The Last of the Earthquake Predictors
A handful of underfunded researchers still believe science can defy the odds. By Mark Harris.
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What lies beneath: Venus’ surface revealed through the clouds
Using observations from ESA’s Venus Express satellite, scientists have shown for the first time how weather patterns seen in Venus’ thick cloud layers are directly linked to the topography of the surface below. Rather than acting as a barrier to our observations, Venus’ clouds may offer insight into what lies beneath.
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Hellish Venus Might Have Been Habitable for Billions of Years
A team of astronomers think the torrid and toxic world was once a cozy home for potential life. By Shannon Hall.
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NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
Sea level rise has been underestimated by up to 28 percent in some areas. By Sarah Emerson.
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Research helps explain formation of ringed crater on the moon
Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, scientists have shed new light on the formation of a huge bull's-eye-shaped impact feature on the Moon. The findings, described in two papers published in the journal Science, could help scientists better understand how these kinds of giant impacts influenced the early evolution of the Moon, Mars and Earth.
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The Seven Wonders of the Solar System
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Drilling Into the Chicxulub Crater, Ground Zero of the Dinosaur Extinction
By studying hills that formed after an asteroid struck the Yucatán Peninsula, researchers found that materials deep in Earth’s crust were brought toward the surface. By Nicholas St. Fleur.
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What Triggered Tsunamis that Demolished Bronze-Age Civilization?
New research suggests that the Bronze Age disaster was caused by the flow of volcanic material into the sea. By Kacey Deamer. (Nov. 8, 2016)
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Moon’s lava tubes could be colossal
Lava tubes inside the moon could remain structurally sound up to 5 kilometers across and offer prime real estate for lunar colonists. By Thomas Sumner.
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Molten iron river discovered speeding beneath Russia and Canada
The magma stream should help geophysicists predict more accurately if and when the magnetic field of the planet’s core will flip, and the magnetic north and south poles trade places, which happens every few thousand years. By Andy Coghlan.
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Molten iron river discovered speeding beneath Russia and Canada
Deep below our planet’s surface a molten jet of iron nearly as hot as the surface of the sun is picking up speed.
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