Dinosaurs likely originated in the Middle Triassic, but the earliest unambiguous dinosaur specimens are from the middle-late Carnian age, primarily in the Southern Hemisphere, with potential eviden…| Letters from Gondwana.
You won't believe why Earth's magnetic North Pole is racing towards Siberia, threatening navigation systems worldwide and puzzling scientists.| AIBlogPostWriter
Ocean flows beauty version. The flows are colored by temperature data from 600 meters and deeper. Flows above 600 meters deep are white. || These are ocean currents based on ECCO-2 data. This is supplementary material that is related to the new Perpetual Ocean 2 tour. These versions were created specifically for Science on a Sphere, but can be used for other purposes as well. || Ocean flows colored by salinity data || Ocean flows colored by temperature data || Beauty color bar ||| NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
This is the 'beauty shot version' of Perpetual Ocean 2: Western Boundary Currents. The visualization starts with a rotating globe showing ocean currents. The camera then zooms into the Kuroshio current, moves over the Indian Ocean to the Agulhas Current, then over to the Gulf Stream. The flows from the surface down to 600 meters deep are all white. Flows below 600 meters depth use the blue-cyan-white color table below.| NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience.This visualization was produced using model output from the joint MIT/JPL project: Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II or ECCO2. ECCO2 uses the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) to synthesize satellite and ...| NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
A study of “weird” Australian rocks suggests stores of niobium rose to the surface during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia.| Eos
A new study offers insight into the viscous BLOBs at the base of Earth’s mantle.| Eos
Surface ruptures causing earthquakes pose risks to infrastructure and human lives, but advances in models and data in the last few decades have improved our ability to mitigate their effects.| Eos
To strengthen societal resilience to worsening natural hazards, siloed Earth system science communities must collaborate to understand conditions that favor skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts.| Eos
After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few million years, new research reveals.| Eos
A new technique detects inaudible acoustic signals from crashing waves, opening up possibilities for monitoring sea and atmospheric conditions from shore.| Eos
As if we needed more proof, an internet legend traced the telling pattern of his garage's shadow over the course of a year.| Gizmodo
Following on the unexpected success of a scientific livestream that drew 61,000 viewers—tripling the audience of The Voice Argentina—a team of paleontologists is preparing for a new groundbreaking broadcast. On August 4th, the public was captivated by a live journey to the depths of the South Atlantic; this October, they will be transported 70 million […]| Letters from Gondwana.
The Cretaceous beds of Patagonia contain the most comprehensive record of non-avian theropods from the Southern Hemisphere. This includes Megaraptora, a clade of medium-sized, highly pneumatized th…| Letters from Gondwana.
There's a big space space science thing on Capitol Hill today| NASA Watch
The past decade has seen explosive growth in forecasting research and applications using AI. Sophisticated new approaches show vast potential to support public safety, health, and economic prosperity.| Eos
Advanced simulations reveal a new calcium carbonate phase whose unusual elastic behavior may explain puzzling seismic and electrical anomalies beneath ancient continents.| Eos
This is the 'beauty shot version' of Perpetual Ocean 2: Western Boundary Currents. The visualization starts with a rotating globe showing ocean currents. The camera then zooms into the Kuroshio current, moves over the Indian Ocean to the Agulhas Current, then over to the Gulf Stream. The flows from the surface down to 600 meters deep are all white. Flows below 600 meters depth use the blue-cyan-white color table below.| NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
Pachycephalosaurians, with their distinctive domed heads, are an enigmatic group of small ornithischian dinosaurs. Most pachycephalosaurid remains are known from the Late Cretaceous of North Americ…| Letters from Gondwana.
NASA's budget is going to be slashed one way or another.| NASA Watch
So you’ve finished teaching the types of plate boundaries and continental drift. Now it’s time to get to the more exiting stuff… earthquakes! I just so happened to be teaching earthquakes when the Turkey earthquake of 2023 occurred. Students were glued to news sites and I tried to really foster empathy within my students as ... Read more The post Earthquake Lesson Plans appeared first on Science Lessons That Rock.| Science Lessons That Rock
Keith’s note: According to this AP story: “Earlier this month, the official government websites that hosted the authoritative, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went dark. Such sites tell state and local governments and the public what to expect in their backyards from a warming world and how best to adapt to it. At the time, the White House said NASA would house the reports to comply with a 1990 law that […] The post NASA Said It Would Post Climate Reports – Not Any More app...| Earth Science Archives - NASA Watch
Several sources report that the NASA GISS lease of the Armstrong Hall building in New York City can't be broken by| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: OK so I am ‘back’. Thanks for all the kind words, support etc. Let’s get down to business. The month of September is going to be the hardest yet for NASA. Multiple budget profiles will collide with one another – in an inelastic fashion. Missions will be on hold and operate in holding pattern mode. Other missions will simply die at the hands of budgeteers. And the people […] The post NASA Forecast For September 2025 appeared first on NASA Watch.| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Using paleomagnetic samples collected along the shores of Lake Superior, a new study illuminates the movement of a billion-year-old paleocontinent as it crept south toward a tectonic collision.| Eos
NASA is chartered to do climate science| NASA Watch
Tired of frustrating Earth Science lessons? Journey Homeschool Academy provides streamlined, engaging Christian homeschool earth science lessons designed for busy families. Reclaim your joy in homeschooling today!| Journey Homeschool Academy
A bottom-up modeling approach could bring scientists closer to understanding communities of microbes in the atmosphere.| Eos
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.| AP News
Keith’s note: This letter from Earth scientists has also been published in Science magazine and is reprinted here with the permission of the authors [Science, 389, 357-358. doi:10.1126/science.adz6100]: “In May, the US administration proposed budget cuts to NASA, including a more than 50% decrease in funding for the agency’s Earth Science Division (ESD) (1), the mission of which is to gather knowledge about Earth through space-based observation and other tools […] The post NASA Earth ...| Budget Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: There is a meeting next week regarding Landsat: Sustainable Land Imaging Mission Alternatives Analysis Team Industry. The meeting is looking for the cheapest way to do the least with Landsat as a result of the President’s FY 2026 Budget Request. The PBR seeks to cancel Landsat missions and descope Earth science budgets at NASA. One small problem: NASA is acting as if the PBR is the actual budget […] The post NASA Prepares To Gut Its Landsat Capabilities appeared first on N...| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
A geophysicist brings math down to Earth and reaches a rural audience.| Eos
Article archive for students from – They’re using the techniques honed by oil and gas to find near-limitless clean energy beneath our feet, CNN, 7/22/2025 Deep beneath Utah’s desert soil, an …| KaiserScience
Keith’s note: Update on the earlier post Going Out Of Business Sale For JPL Satellites: emails are circulating within JPL and NASA that mention a number of satellites that are listed as being targeted for shut down in the President’s FY 2026 budget request. NASA HQ is apparently not waiting for an actual budget. The list of satellites of the discount rack at NASA now includes OCO-2, OCO-3, SAGE III, […] The post But Wait: More Used Satellite Bargains At NASA appeared first on NASA Watch.| Budget Archives - NASA Watch
the following was sent out to users of the NCCS MSS| NASA Watch
Dromaeosauridae is a clade of highly specialised small- to mid-sized theropod dinosaurs closely related to birds. Their fossils have been found in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America…| Letters from Gondwana.
The FjordPhyto citizen science project invites polar tourists onboard cruise vessels to gather data samples, helping researchers understand changes in microalgae.| NASA Science
During the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, the status of paleontology as an evolutionary discipline was attempted to be established by a number of paleontologists. From 16th to 19th October 1980, the Field Museum of Natural History held the Macroevolution Conference, a historic event that challenged the four-decade-long dominance of the Modern Synthesis. […]| Letters from Gondwana.
Eutyrannosauria, the superfamily of carnivorous dinosaurs that includes the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex, dominated the Asian and North American terrestrial faunas during the latest Cretaceous. Through…| Letters from Gondwana.
Last night NASA SMD AA Nicky Fox was presented with the Collier Award for NASA's Parker Solar Probe| NASA Watch
Like many environmental scientists, early exposure to nature sparked my interest in the field. But so did the 1990 video game SimEarth, game studio Maxis's first release after SimCity. SimEarth was more than mere entertainment, however. It was Maxis co-founder Will Wright’s effort to disseminate an idea that captivated| The Science of Fiction
The Triassic beds of Argentina and Brazil play a key role in understanding of the origin and early diversification of Dinosauria. The first recorded dinosaurs include some predatory forms, such as …| Letters from Gondwana.
Keith’s note: NASA’s Planetary Science Analysis/Assessment Groups have issued a document dated 6 May 2025, titled “AGness”. According to the authors (which has been annotated to enhance clarity, original document below), addressing members of the planetary science community: “The linked document below, The Keys of AGness, is a product of the collective Planetary Analysis and Assessment Groups (AGs), presented by their Chairs and vetted through their respective Steering/Executive Com...| Space Life Science Archives - NASA Watch
now that budget cuts and layoffs are approaching, government science agencies are starting to come up with the public-facing rationale| NASA Watch
Keith's note: NASA has led space science and "Made America Great In Space" for more than half a century.| NASA Watch
Here are the NASA excerpts from the FY 2026 Budget outline| NASA Watch
Keith's note: according to NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy at Science| NASA Watch
Science agency funding is under heavy scrutiny by DOGE, OMB, OPM and other Administration offices| NASA Watch
Therizinosauria is a group of unusual theropod dinosaurs known from Cretaceous deposits in Asia and North America. The clade exhibits unique features, including lanceolate teeth, a rostral rhamphotheca, and a broad, opisthopubic pelvis. Some of those characteristics are associated with a shift in dietary preferences and an adaptation to herbivory. But the most striking feature, […]| Letters from Gondwana.
The evolution of the avian skull is marked by radical transformations of the braincase, palate, and snout. Brain size correlated with major evolutionary innovations like cognition, flight, environm…| Letters from Gondwana.
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Want to try a read aloud with your earth science students? Browse this list of my favorite earth and space science picture books!| Science Lessons That Rock
The map was updated on March 15, 2023, to correct times in Mexico along the total eclipse path. ||| NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
