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Explore Chile’s Marble Caves: Turquoise Wonders Sculpted by Nature
Chile’s Marble Caves, located on the shores of General Carrera Lake in the Aysén Region, are extraordinary natural formations shaped over 10,000 to 15,000 years. These caverns, known for their smooth, swirling marble walls, reflect vibrant turquoise hues due to the glacial silt in the water. Originally limestone, the rock underwent metamorphosis...
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New Lunar Map Attempts to Identify the Origin Impact Craters of Rock Samples
A new map of the moon’s Mare Orientale basin highlights areas containing original impact melt. These findings could help date the basin’s formation, which is estimated to be 3.8 billion years old. Scientists believe this research may reveal Earth’s early impact history while guiding future lunar sample-return missions. The map also distinguis...
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Did Earth Once Freeze Completely? New Evidence Found in Colorado Rocks
Recent research in Colorado’s Pikes Peak has uncovered crucial evidence supporting the Snowball Earth hypothesis. The discovery of Tava sandstone formations suggests that Earth experienced a global ice sheet about 700 million years ago. Using advanced radiometric dating, researchers pinpointed the formation of these sandstones to between 690 and ...
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Ascends Jezero Crater, Exploring Mars' Ancient Terrain
NASA’s Perseverance rover has initiated a critical new mission on Mars, beginning its ascent to the summit of Jezero Crater after three and half years of exploring its floor. This six-wheeled rover aims to reach the crater’s rim, which rises 1,000 feet above the Martian surface. The climb presents significant challenges, with Perseverance navig...
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Taiwan's Iconic Elephant Trunk Rock Collapses Into Sea Due To Natural Weathering
A famous natural attraction in northern Taiwan, the Elephant Trunk Rock, is no more. According to officials, the rock formation, which got its name from its resemblance to an elephant trunk, collapsed into the sea on Saturday.
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Origins Of Life On Earth: 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Asteroid Holds Clues
Scientists are hopeful that fragments from a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock will reveal the origins of our existence.
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Noah's Ark Found? Experts Discover 5000-Year-Old Boat-Shaped Mound In Turkey
The teamextracted aged rock and soil samples from a geological formation in Turkey, which they believe contained the ruins of the vessel.
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Ancient Space Rocks May Hold Clues To Earth's Formation, Says NASA
The image shows a canister, which is a gray metal cylinder. Inside, dark, powdery asteroid sample material can be seen.
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"Bear Face" Spotted On Mars As NASA Observes Rock Formation
The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter can clearly see a bear's face peering back at it from a strange feature on the surface of Mars.
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Rock Or Alligator? Viral Video Stuns Internet
Whether this is an animal or a rock formation is unclear from the video, but social media users are incredibly perplexed about it.
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NASA’s Webb Captures Pillars of Creation Filled With New Stars, Dense Cloud of Dust
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape the iconic Pillars of Creation where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations but are far more permeable.
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IIT Roorkee Establishes ‘Rock and Fluid Multi-Physics Laboratory’ To Aid Efforts of Energy Exploration
The lab can handle characterization challenges of the oil and gas reservoir in routine and complex formations including the hydrates and geothermal systems and carry out carbon utilization and storage feasibility studies.
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Mesmerising Video Shows 'Levanter' Cloud Over Rock Of Gibraltar
The cloud appears to form out of thin air around the peak of nearly 1,400-feet-tall Rock of Gibraltar.
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Earth's Formation Explained With the Help of New Theory Using Laboratory Experiments, Computer Simulations
In a recent study to understand the composition of the Earth, researchers at ETH Zurich created dynamic models and simulated the formation of planets. Researchers ran simulations and collided thousands of planetesimals with each other in the early solar system. They observed that a mixture of several different planetesimals could lead to Earth's co...
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NASA Rover Spots Strange Rock Formation On Mars, Sets Internet Abuzz
One of the most recent images captured by National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA's) Curiosity rover on Mars shows an unusual structure in the rocks that looks like a neatly carved out doorway nestled on the Red Planet.
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Explore Chile’s Marble Caves: Turquoise Wonders Sculpted by Nature
Chile’s Marble Caves, located on the shores of General Carrera Lake in the Aysén Region, are extraordinary natural formations shaped over 10,000 to 15,000 years. These caverns, known for their smooth, swirling marble walls, reflect vibrant turquoise hues due to the glacial silt in the water. Originally limestone, the rock underwent metamorphosis...
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New Lunar Map Attempts to Identify the Origin Impact Craters of Rock Samples
A new map of the moon’s Mare Orientale basin highlights areas containing original impact melt. These findings could help date the basin’s formation, which is estimated to be 3.8 billion years old. Scientists believe this research may reveal Earth’s early impact history while guiding future lunar sample-return missions. The map also distinguis...
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Did Earth Once Freeze Completely? New Evidence Found in Colorado Rocks
Recent research in Colorado’s Pikes Peak has uncovered crucial evidence supporting the Snowball Earth hypothesis. The discovery of Tava sandstone formations suggests that Earth experienced a global ice sheet about 700 million years ago. Using advanced radiometric dating, researchers pinpointed the formation of these sandstones to between 690 and ...
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Ascends Jezero Crater, Exploring Mars' Ancient Terrain
NASA’s Perseverance rover has initiated a critical new mission on Mars, beginning its ascent to the summit of Jezero Crater after three and half years of exploring its floor. This six-wheeled rover aims to reach the crater’s rim, which rises 1,000 feet above the Martian surface. The climb presents significant challenges, with Perseverance navig...
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Taiwan's Iconic Elephant Trunk Rock Collapses Into Sea Due To Natural Weathering
A famous natural attraction in northern Taiwan, the Elephant Trunk Rock, is no more. According to officials, the rock formation, which got its name from its resemblance to an elephant trunk, collapsed into the sea on Saturday.
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Origins Of Life On Earth: 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Asteroid Holds Clues
Scientists are hopeful that fragments from a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock will reveal the origins of our existence.
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Noah's Ark Found? Experts Discover 5000-Year-Old Boat-Shaped Mound In Turkey
The teamextracted aged rock and soil samples from a geological formation in Turkey, which they believe contained the ruins of the vessel.
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Ancient Space Rocks May Hold Clues To Earth's Formation, Says NASA
The image shows a canister, which is a gray metal cylinder. Inside, dark, powdery asteroid sample material can be seen.
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"Bear Face" Spotted On Mars As NASA Observes Rock Formation
The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter can clearly see a bear's face peering back at it from a strange feature on the surface of Mars.
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Rock Or Alligator? Viral Video Stuns Internet
Whether this is an animal or a rock formation is unclear from the video, but social media users are incredibly perplexed about it.
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NASA’s Webb Captures Pillars of Creation Filled With New Stars, Dense Cloud of Dust
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape the iconic Pillars of Creation where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations but are far more permeable.
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IIT Roorkee Establishes ‘Rock and Fluid Multi-Physics Laboratory’ To Aid Efforts of Energy Exploration
The lab can handle characterization challenges of the oil and gas reservoir in routine and complex formations including the hydrates and geothermal systems and carry out carbon utilization and storage feasibility studies.
-
Mesmerising Video Shows 'Levanter' Cloud Over Rock Of Gibraltar
The cloud appears to form out of thin air around the peak of nearly 1,400-feet-tall Rock of Gibraltar.
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Earth's Formation Explained With the Help of New Theory Using Laboratory Experiments, Computer Simulations
In a recent study to understand the composition of the Earth, researchers at ETH Zurich created dynamic models and simulated the formation of planets. Researchers ran simulations and collided thousands of planetesimals with each other in the early solar system. They observed that a mixture of several different planetesimals could lead to Earth's co...
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NASA Rover Spots Strange Rock Formation On Mars, Sets Internet Abuzz
One of the most recent images captured by National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA's) Curiosity rover on Mars shows an unusual structure in the rocks that looks like a neatly carved out doorway nestled on the Red Planet.
