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This image from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover shows the Amargosa Valley, on the slopes leading up to Mount Sharp on Mars

Ice shapes the landslide landscape on Mars

This HiRISE image cutout shows Recurring Slope Lineae in Tivat crater on Mars in enhanced color

Water On Mars? : Previous evidence of water on Mars now...

Moon crust formation graphic.

Moon’s crust underwent resurfacing after forming from magma ocean

Riverbed armor

How Rivers Resist Erosion

Photo of early stages of the eruption of the Sarychev on June 12, 2009

High-latitude volcanic eruptions have global impact

Fossil of Dipteronia brownii and extant Dipteronia browni

First Recorded Fossil of Dipteronia in East Asia Reported from Yunnan

Seismic record captured by the seismometer installed in the ICTJA-CSIC during the Bruce Springsteen concert at Camp Nou on May 14, 2016. The upper panel shows the seismogram, while the lower panel shows the spectrogram where it is possible to see the distribution of the energy between the different frequencies. You can distinguish the different songs of the concert and highlight those performed during the encores towards the end of the concert

A seismometer is able to detect the earth shacking generated by...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating powerful earthquakes.

Seafloor sediments appear to enhance Earthquake and Tsunami danger in Pacific...

Some of the coldest and darkest dust in space shines brightly in this infrared image from the Herschel Observatory.

Space dust may transport life between worlds, research suggests

Trilobite, Ordovician fossils

Oxygen levels link to ancient explosion of life, researchers find

Kaolinite sinks into the subduction zone with the oceanic plate.

Clay mineral waters Earth’s mantle from the inside

Seed ferns

Hundreds of fossil tree specimens belong to a single species

Jablonskipora kidwellae

Fossil that fills missing evolutionary link named after University of Chicago...

Recorded earthquakes in the region are marked with gray circles

After Iran-Iraq earthquake, seismologists work to fill in fault map of...

Sedimentary rock layers

A popular tool to trace Earth’s oxygen history can give false...

Madrid, Spain

A sub-desert savanna spread across Madrid 14 million years ago

Sea Glass Beach

What Is Sea Glass?

Under Sumatra, the oceanic tectonic plate is descending below the continental plate

First detailed simulation of 2004 megathrust earthquake

Glacial polish reflects sunlight at Pothole Dome in Yosemite National Park, California.

Study reveals structure and origins of glacial polish on Yosemite’s rocks

Bioclastic limestone and cross-bedded conglomerate are visible in exposed rocks at Marl Wash in the Bouse Formation, south of Blythe, California

Colorado River’s connection with the ocean was a punctuated affair

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