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Could it be that our Paleolithic forebears were more than artists and hunters, that they were also the world’s earliest ...
The 1960 Copernicus Prototype Chart LPC-58, the first true geological map of the Moon, was not formally published by the USGS, though a modified and updated version was published later in that decade.
Last week, researchers released the first-ever geological map of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. Here's the map again, flattened into a 2D, rectangular ...
In 1884, Dr. Johnston-Lavis laid before the Geological Society an elaborate memoir, in which he detailed the theoretical conclusions at which he had arrived after long and patient study of the ...
An Egyptian treasure map discovered 200 years ago is unique, as it shows the geology of the mountains surrounding ancient gold and silver mines. This map predates modern geological maps by almost ...
A new high-resolution geological map of the Moon was recently released online. Ji et al. 2022/Science Bulletin. A research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a new high ...
The result is a geological map with unprecedented detail, measuring a t1:5,000,000 scale. “This map is a culmination of a decades-long project,” Corey Fortezzo, USGS geologist and lead author ...
The map shows the probability of damaging U.S. earthquakes over the next 100 years A crack formed across California State Route 178 after an earthquake shook the region in 2019.
New global geological map of Saturn’s moon Titan. Image: (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) Using data gathered by NASA’s Cassini probe, scientists have compiled the first global geologic map of Saturn ...
The image is an excerpt from a detailed geological map that is the first complete geological survey of this region made using data from NASA’s Messenger mission, which orbited Mercury from 2011 ...