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Latest Earth and Environment News
Scripps Oceanography Dispatches Rapid Response Exploration of Chile Earthquake SiteScientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will explore the earthquake rupture site of the Feb. 27 massive 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes in ...
NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black HolesAstronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, ...
Proposed Mission Would Return Sample from Asteroid "Time Capsule"Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It also might hit us someday...
UV Exposure Has Increased Over the Last 30 Years, but Stabilized Since the Mid-1990sNASA scientists analyzing 30 years of satellite data have found that the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth's surface has increased markedly over the last three decades. Most of the i...
See Spot on Jupiter. See Spot Glow New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first detailed ...
