Geologists love fieldwork. They love getting their specialized hammers and chisels into seams in the rock, exposing unweathered surfaces and…
Here on Earth, geologists seek out deep channels into Earth's rock, carved over the ages by flowing water. The exposed…
Northern Canada has been keeping a secret from the rest of the world. It's home to "Resurrection," a tectonic plate…
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It takes oxygen to make iron rust. So when scientists discovered hematite spread widely through lunar high latitudes, they were…
Ganymede's surface is a bit of a puzzle for planetary scientists. About two-thirds of its surface is covered in lighter…
We all know what water is. And what rock is. The difference is crystal clear. Well, here on Earth it…
The Moon is easily the most well-studied object in the Solar System, (other than Earth, of course.) But it still…
There are bad days, and then there are really bad days. 65 million years ago, life on Earth - especially…
The USGS' Astrogeology Science Center has released a complete mineral map of the Moon, which the lunar mining crowd is…