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Giant Ancient Hot Spot “Islands” Found In Earth’s MantleSchematic of a Large Low Velocity Seismic Province and neighboring subduction zone, with the difference in response to earthquakes attributed to grain size.

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Giant Ancient Hot Spot “Islands” Found In Earth’s MantleSchematic of a Large Low Velocity Seismic Province and neighboring subduction zone, with the difference in response to earthquakes attributed to grain size.
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Giant Ancient Hot Spot “Islands” Found In Earth’s Mantle

clock-iconJanuary 22, 2025
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Far Below California, The Lithosphere Seems To Be Sinking Down Into Earth's MantleA hiker stands at the edge of a cliff at Taft Point overlooking El Capitan in Yosemite National Park among California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

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Far Below California, The Lithosphere Seems To Be Sinking Down Into Earth's MantleA hiker stands at the edge of a cliff at Taft Point overlooking El Capitan in Yosemite National Park among California's Sierra Nevada mountains.
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Far Below California, The Lithosphere Seems To Be Sinking Down Into Earth's Mantle

clock-iconJanuary 22, 2025
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Unexpected And Unexplained Structures Found Deep Below The Pacific OceanA transparent version of our planet with an opaque core, showing blobs stretched and distributed around its interior

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Unexpected And Unexplained Structures Found Deep Below The Pacific OceanA transparent version of our planet with an opaque core, showing blobs stretched and distributed around its interior
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Unexpected And Unexplained Structures Found Deep Below The Pacific Ocean

clock-iconJanuary 8, 2025
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How Is Earth’s Core Still Hellishly Hot After Billions Of Years?The volcanic eruption at Geldingadalir, Fagradalsfjall, Iceland.

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How Is Earth’s Core Still Hellishly Hot After Billions Of Years?The volcanic eruption at Geldingadalir, Fagradalsfjall, Iceland.
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How Is Earth’s Core Still Hellishly Hot After Billions Of Years?

clock-iconDecember 5, 2024
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Planet Earth’s Core May Be "Leaking" IronIllustration of Earth core structure: the outer crust, the rocky mantle, the liquid outer core, and the solid inner core.

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Planet Earth’s Core May Be "Leaking" IronIllustration of Earth core structure: the outer crust, the rocky mantle, the liquid outer core, and the solid inner core.
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Planet Earth’s Core May Be "Leaking" Iron

clock-iconNovember 28, 2024
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Easter Island Reveals Odd Insights Into Earth's Tectonic Plates And MantleRapa Nui, aka Easter Island, is most famous for its giant maoi stone statues.

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Easter Island Reveals Odd Insights Into Earth's Tectonic Plates And MantleRapa Nui, aka Easter Island, is most famous for its giant maoi stone statues.
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Easter Island Reveals Odd Insights Into Earth's Tectonic Plates And Mantle

clock-iconOctober 21, 2024
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How Do Supercontinents Form And Break Up?A digital representation showing the planet separated into its constituent parts, like different sized hollow spheres fitting inside one another. At the centre is the glowing super-hot core.

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How Do Supercontinents Form And Break Up?A digital representation showing the planet separated into its constituent parts, like different sized hollow spheres fitting inside one another. At the centre is the glowing super-hot core.
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How Do Supercontinents Form And Break Up?

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Ol Doinyo Lengai Is The Weirdest Volcano On Earth, Maybe In The Solar SystemGiraffe running through dry savanna in front of volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania under cloudy and blue sky

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Ol Doinyo Lengai Is The Weirdest Volcano On Earth, Maybe In The Solar SystemGiraffe running through dry savanna in front of volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania under cloudy and blue sky
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Ol Doinyo Lengai Is The Weirdest Volcano On Earth, Maybe In The Solar System

clock-iconApril 15, 2024
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An Ancient Planet May Be Trapped Near The Center Of The EarthArtist impression of two plance colliding, the second one is significantly smaller than the first.

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An Ancient Planet May Be Trapped Near The Center Of The EarthArtist impression of two plance colliding, the second one is significantly smaller than the first.
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An Ancient Planet May Be Trapped Near The Center Of The Earth

clock-iconFebruary 16, 2024
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Is It Possible To Drill A Hole Through The Earth And Come Out The Other Side?A big hole in a rock.

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Is It Possible To Drill A Hole Through The Earth And Come Out The Other Side?A big hole in a rock.
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Is It Possible To Drill A Hole Through The Earth And Come Out The Other Side?

clock-iconDecember 23, 2023
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An 8.5-Year-Long Wobble Means Earth's Core And Mantle Are Not AlignedArtist impression of our planet cut in half and with the different layers highlighted like a nesting doll

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An 8.5-Year-Long Wobble Means Earth's Core And Mantle Are Not AlignedArtist impression of our planet cut in half and with the different layers highlighted like a nesting doll
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An 8.5-Year-Long Wobble Means Earth's Core And Mantle Are Not Aligned

clock-iconDecember 19, 2023
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Earth’s Surface Is Leaking Water Down To Its CoreArtist impression of the Earth with one eight slice removed showing its interior.

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Earth’s Surface Is Leaking Water Down To Its CoreArtist impression of the Earth with one eight slice removed showing its interior.
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Earth’s Surface Is Leaking Water Down To Its Core

clock-iconNovember 15, 2023
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Anomalies Inside Earth's Mantle May Come From Ancient Moon-Forming CollisionThe artist impression show the moment the ancient Earth is being hit by another planet. Between them a lot of molten rocke and vast clouds of debris.

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Anomalies Inside Earth's Mantle May Come From Ancient Moon-Forming CollisionThe artist impression show the moment the ancient Earth is being hit by another planet. Between them a lot of molten rocke and vast clouds of debris.
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Anomalies Inside Earth's Mantle May Come From Ancient Moon-Forming Collision

clock-iconNovember 1, 2023
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Gas Formed In The Big Bang Could Be Leaking From Earth's CoreIllustration of the Earth cut open to reveal its core.

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Gas Formed In The Big Bang Could Be Leaking From Earth's CoreIllustration of the Earth cut open to reveal its core.
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Gas Formed In The Big Bang Could Be Leaking From Earth's Core

clock-iconOctober 19, 2023
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What's Beneath Africa's Surface?Lookingt Earth, specifically the African continent, from space as the sun peeks out behind it.

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What's Beneath Africa's Surface?Lookingt Earth, specifically the African continent, from space as the sun peeks out behind it.
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What's Beneath Africa's Surface?

clock-iconOctober 15, 2023
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