From Apollo to Artemis: Iceland’s little-known history of hosting NASA’s Moon training missions
Iceland has been the backdrop for generations of astronaut training missions. We look at what makes the Arctic island nation ...
Geologists Crack 134-Million-Year-Old Mystery of Amethyst Geode Formation
New research from the University of Göttingen reveals that amethyst geodes in Uruguay formed at low temperatures from ...
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Pele’s hair-raising physics: glassy gifts from a volcano goddess
Both Pele’s hair and Pele’s tears take their name from the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes and fire: Pelehonuamea, “She who ...
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The Moon 'turned itself inside out' – and scientists have just figured out how
The samples of basaltic lava collected by the Apollo 11 crew showed surprisingly ... There it mixed with the mantle, melted and returned to the surface as titanium-rich lava flows that we see on the ...
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Hanington: Gem of a theory develops for how amethyst quartz is formed
A research team at the University of Göttingen, Germany, reported on its investigation into just exactly how amethyst forms ...