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Lava flows in Daedalia Planum

Lava flows in Daedalia Planum

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express imaged Daedalia Planum, a sparsely cratered, untextured plain on the Red Planet featuring solidified lava flows of varying ages.


An enlarged image of Reduviasporonites

New ancient fungus finding suggests world's forests were wiped out in global catastrophe

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists beleive extinct fungus species capitalised on a world-wide disaster and thrived on early Earth.


Robotics desert test provides NASA with new set of wheels for moon

Robotics desert test provides NASA with new set of wheels for moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every year, for two weeks in the Arizona desert at Black Point Lava Flow, NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies group (Desert RATS) conducts technology development tests in anticipation ...


Eruption of the La Cumbre volcano in Fernandina island

Volcanic eruption takes toll on Galapagos wildlife

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A volcanic eruption over the weekend has taken a toll on the wildlife of the ecologically-fragile Galapagos Islands, causing the deaths of numerous fish and various sea lions, said officials on Thursday.


Lava flows reveal clues to magnetic field reversals

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient lava flows are guiding a better understanding of what generates and controls the Earth's magnetic field — and what may drive it to occasionally reverse direction.