geophysics
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How Engineers Tested The Super-Sensitive Seismometer That Will Detect Quakes On Mars
If all goes according to plan, NASA’s Mars InSight mission will launch this weekend from California. Onboard the Atlas V-401 rocket is the InSight lander, a nearly 360kg machine loaded up with cameras, a robotic arm, a heat probe and a seismometer that, for the first time, will allow us to examine the inner structure…
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Let’s All Calm Down And Make Sense Of That Antarctic Mantle Plume
Three decades ago, scientists began to study the possibility that there was a plume of hot rock coming up from the mantle, heating parts of Western Antarctica. Back in September, researchers published results of a model showing how such a plume might affect the Antarctic ice sheet.
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Bali Prepares For Devastating Volcanic Eruption
This month has been marked with a staggering number of geological and meteorological catastrophes. Powerful hurricanes have pummelled the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, and a spate of earthquake events rocked Mexico. Now, geologists worry that seismic activity in Indonesia will lead to a powerful volcanic eruption.
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Why Did Montana Experience A Powerful Earthquake This Week?
Earlier this week, planet Earth rumbled in a place where it usually doesn’t rumble: Montana. But it also rumbled in the Philippines. Come to think of it, it rumbled in Vanuatu and Japan too. The Earth rumbles a lot.