Tag: Earth
NASA camera catches moon ‘photobombing’ Earth
On July 5, 2016, the moon passed between NOAA's DSCOVR satellite and Earth. NASA's EPIC camera aboard DSCOVR snapped these images over a period...
First signs of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer
A simulation of the Antarctic ozone hole, made from data taken on October 22, 2015.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (edited by MIT News)
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Deep ‘scars’ from ancient geological events play role in current earthquakes
A proposed perennial plate tectonic map. Present-day plate boundaries (white lines), with hidden ancient plate boundaries that may reactivate to control plate tectonics (yellow...
Study helps explain sea ice differences at Earth’s poles
Location of the southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current front (white contour), with -1 degree Celsius sea surface temperature lines (black contours) on Sept. 22 each...
