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Radars mounted on drones could find water on Mars
5+ hour, 35+ min ago (247+ words) News9live New Delhi: Researchers from the University of Arizona have tested drone-mounted ground-penetrating radar on debris-covered glaciers in Alaska and Wyoming to prepare for future exploration of Mars A paper describing the research has been published in the Journal of Geophysical…...
Plate tectonics responsible for missing billion years in geological record
3+ week, 2+ day ago (266+ words) News9live New Delhi: Scientists have long been puzzled by over a million years of missing geologic record, known as the Great Unconformity Sedimentary rocks from the Cambrian period, from about 500 million years ago, sit directly on top of much older igneous…...
Ancient mineral sink delayed rise of Oxygen in Earth's atmosphere
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (230+ words) news9live. com New Delhi: Scientists from China maty have solved a long-standing puzzle in the early history of the Earth The delay was likely caused due to the limited availability of phosphorus, a nutrient essential for life, in the ancient oceans…...
Giant dinosaur species discovered in Brazil reveals ancient link between South America and Europe
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (373+ words) New Delhi: Scientists in Brazil have discovered a new giant dinosaur species, which can provide new knowledge about prehistoric life and ancient associations of continents. The dinosaur is called Dasosaurus tocantinensis, and it is thought to be one of the…...
NISAR data used for measuring soil-moisture across Indian landmass
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (331+ words) The NISAR satellite is systematically observing the Indian landmass every 12 days. ISRO has demonstrated the generation of soil-moisture data product at a resolution of 100m. New Delhi: The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite launched on board ISRO's GSLV-F16 flight on…...
Snowball Earth was punctuated by Slushball phases
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (266+ words) News9live New Delhi: Researchers from the University of Southampton have found evidence in ancient rocks that the climate of the Earth continued to fluctuate during the most extreme ice age in the Cryogenian Period between 720 and 635 million years ago, known as…...
NISAR satellite peers through clouds to capture Mississippi River
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (275+ words) The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission has captured the Mississippi River Delta region even while it was obscured by clouds. The observations demonstrate the capability of the satellite. New Delhi: The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission has captured…...
Ramgarh crater likely to have formed in strike by iron meteorite
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (240+ words) News9live New Delhi: Scientists have found small, round, magnetic particles in the soil inside Ramgarh Crater in Rajasthan in India These spherules look like they were shaped by the friction of air during flight, similar to droplets that are melted and…...
Meteorites could have delivered limited water to primordial Earth
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (261+ words) News9live New Delhi: Scientists had previously believed that bombardment by meteorites in the early history of the Solar System delivered most of the water on Earth New research based on samples collected during the Apollo missions indicates that only a fractional…...
Iran's Taftan volcano shows signs of unrest after 7, 000 years
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (252+ words) Satellite data has revealed the ground rising beneath Iran's Taftan stratovolcano. There has been no eruption. Satellite data has revealed the first clear signs of unrest at the Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran, with the summit rising by 9 cm between…...