Space science
GOCE satellite reveals surface structure under the Antarctic ice cover
Despite completing its orbit over six years ago, the European Space Agency's GOCE satellite, ESA, continues to bring new insights to our planet.
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A million billion tons of diamonds can be filled underground
These diamonds are located in an inaccessible depth, from 145 to 240 km, at the base of the craton, located at the bottom of the tectonic plate and hardly moving since a…
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Life on Earth suffered from a temperature of 75 degrees Celsius
The Earth's surface during the first life development period can be as hot as 75 degrees Celsius before falling to 35 degrees.
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Discovered a giant melted carbon reservoir in the United States
Scientists have used the world's largest seismic sensor to probe parts deep beneath the Earth's surface. And they discovered a molten carbon reservoir in the United Stat…
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Hot lava rivers like the Sun flow from Canada to Russia
A research team found that molten lava flows through 9000 and Russia, 420 km wide and nearly as high as the Sun.
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Water accounts for 70% of the Earth's surface area. Under the surface, to what extent is the water deep?
What depth can the water reach to the surface? In other words, potential life can exist at any depth below the Earth's surface?
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10 interesting facts about Earth you may not know
The Earth is not only a place where people can live - but is also known as the origin of life and the only planet in existence.
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The process of dripping lithosphere below the surface of the Earth
There are some parts of the world where the kinetic activity below the surface of the Earth cannot be detected.
Oceanography
Detecting strange footprints near the ocean surface nearly 4km
Strange footprints were found in the ocean floor by a deep-diving robot belonging to a British study of the National Oceanographic Center in Southampton.
Space science
The mysterious 900 light source flashes on the surface of the Earth
NASA's Earth-observation spacecraft detects nearly 900 mysterious lights reflected from the planet's surface in just one year.
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Concussion detection: Asteroids bring life to Earth 1.8 billion years ago
According to a recent study, the collisions of asteroids into the Earth's surface may have facilitated the growth of microorganisms.
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The new map reveals the past of Venus
Venus Express has provided the first map of the infrared wavelength of the Southern Venusian hemisphere.
Environment
The lowest temperature on the Earth's surface is -98 degrees Celsius
Scientists at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) have determined that the lowest temperature in the East Antarctic Plateau is -98 degrees Celsius.
Environment
Variation of Earth temperature for nearly 140 years
NASA graphics of Earth's surface temperature between 1880 and 2017 show a global warming trend, Science Alert on April 10 reported.