NASA satellite will use radar to map Earth’s crust in extreme detail
Scientists will soon have a spaceborne tool to study environmental changes at a very high resolution, and you won't have long to wait to learn more about it.…
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Mars’s crust more complex, evolved than previously thought
Early crust on Mars may be more complex than previously thought -- and it may even be similar to our own planet's original crust.
The Martian surface is…
Ancient Oxygen Source Detected in Earth’s Crust; May Have Influenced Evolution of Life, Researchers…
An ancient source of oxygen has been discovered deep in the Earth's crust, by scientists from Newcastle University. The researchers were able to unravel a…
Tilting of Earth’s crust governed the flow of ancient megafloods: Study provides new perspective on…
As ice sheets began melting at the end of the last ice age, a series of cataclysmic floods called the Missoula megafloods scoured the landscape of eastern…
‘Slushy’ magma ocean led to formation of the Moon’s crust
Scientists have shown how the freezing of a 'slushy' ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon's crust.
The scientists, from the…
A study of Earth’s crust hints that supernovas aren’t gold mines
A smattering of plutonium atoms embedded in Earth’s crust are helping to resolve the origins of nature’s heaviest elements.
Scientists had long…