Scientists started to use drones to fly very close to volcanoes, collect gases, and predict eruptions for early warning.
Category: Geology
Lost tectonic plate found
In the Pacific Ocean, next to North America, was discovered a tectonic plate, which many geophysicists didn’t believe in its existence.
NASA’s mission Mars 2020
NASA’s mission Mars 2020, launched yesterday, promises to bring samples from Mars to Earth with Perseverance rover. To find out if existed life.
What are speleothems?
Speleothems are rock formations inside caves, the most known are stalactites and stalagmites. These and other formations are shown in this post.
Discovery by Chang’e 4
Do you remember the news about Chinese spacecraft in the dark side of moon? This mission discovered something about lunar surface.
Technical Museum Nikola Tesla (Part 2)
This is the second post of series about the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla. To see the first post, click in following button.
Postojna cave (Part 2)
In the second part about Postojna cave it is shown most part of permanent exhibition, called Expo Cave Karst or Expo Jama Kras.
Postojna cave (Part 1)
The cave in Postojna city, Slovenia, is a natural wonder. As usual, what is shown in this post isn’t all the exhibition.
Earth’s internal discontinuities
This post’s subject are the 5 discontinuities of Earth’s interior which demarcate borders between inner layers.
Environmental impact study
This post’s subject is the environmental impact study for installation of small hydropower plants. Each country has it’s own environmental regulation. Therefore I won’t enter in this part.