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“Eight months of ceaseless activity have covered the landscape around Chile ’s Puyehue Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex in ash. The light-colored ash appears most clearly on the rocky, alpine slopes surrounding the active vent and Puyehue’s 2,236 meter (7,336 foot)-tall caldera.” Quote from the Earth Observatory image release.
NASA ’s GRAIL mission has beamed back its first video of the far side of the moon . The imagery was taken on Jan. 19 by the MoonKAM aboard the mission’s “Ebb” spacecraft.
Tags: ads-by-google, energy, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, moon, NASA, news, north-carolina, shale, south-carolina, united-states“A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA ’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed ‘Suomi NPP’ on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin .” Quoted from the NASA press release.
“An eruption occurred in the Red Sea in December 2011. According to news reports, fishermen witnessed lava fountains reaching up to 30 meters tall on December 19. By December 23, 2011, what looked like a new island appeared in the region.” Quote from the NASA image release.
Tags: climate-change, energy, Geology.com, mexico, NASA, north-carolina, oceanography, pennsylvania, satellite images, shale, volcanoes“ NASA ’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be in the so-called habitable zone where liquid water could exist on a planet ’s surface, but they are the smallest exoplanets ever confirmed around a star like our sun.” Quoted from the NASA press release.
NASA has a gallery of low altitude images of the Vesta Asteroid . The collection also includes a terrain model of Vesta’s southern hemisphere
Tags: ads-by-google, asteroids and meteorites, climate-change, current-events, earth sciences, earthquakes, environment, Geology.com, Jobs, massachusetts, mexico, NASA, philippines, south-carolina, vestaNASA researchers “investigated how Earth’s plant life is likely to react over the next three centuries as Earth’s climate changes in response to rising levels of human-produced greenhouse gases.” Quote from the NASA press release.
Tags: carolina, geology, Geology.com, Jobs, mexico, NASA, north-carolina, ocean, pennsylvania, plants, united-states, washingtonNASA has a nice collection of “Planetary Puzzles” for you to assemble online. Each of these interactive webpuzzles is based upon a famous NASA image and is rated for its difficulty.
Tags: climate-change, Geology.com, Jobs, middle-east, NASA, news, puzzles, researchNASA ’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface.
Tags: carolina, energy, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, NASA, planets, united-states, virginia, waterThis web seminar for teachers of grades 5–8 students includes an inquiry-based lesson introducing you to life forms living in extreme environments.
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