A picture with names to describe opals.Credit: geology.comWhat Is Opal?Known as a precious opal it can sparkle all colors with an intensity and chromatic quality of color that matches the fire of a diamond.There are countless types of opals located in deposits all over the globe. If you are just beginning the process of...
Lebanon Meteorite: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover discovered this huge meteorite, called “Lebanon” on July 15th, 2014. A small piece of the meteorite, called “Lebanon B”, is allowed to be seen in the foreground. The cavities on the surface of the meteorite may have been cavities, once filled with olivine crystals, or, they may be...
Iron Meteorite: We are all shown this detail of a polished and etched slice of a a siderite (iron) meteorite found at Brenham Field, Kansas, in 2005 by professional meteorite hunter Steve Arnold. The slice was recorded with a mild nitric acid based solution to reveal a pattern of iron-nickel alloys, taenite and kamacite....
What is the San Andreas Fault?The San Andreas Fault is the gliding boundary in between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. It slices California in 2 from Cape Mendocino to the Mexican border. Moreover, despite San Francisco’s legendary 1906 earthquake, the San Andreas Fault did not go through the city. However, neighborhoods...
This photograph from 2016 reveals a rift that widened even further and launched a large Delaware-sized iceberg from Antarctica's Larsen C ice sheet in the space of a few months. Credit rating: NASA/GSFC/OIBThe scientists have found an ice process that may have caused a Delaware-sized iceberg to break off Antarctica's massive Larsen and sea...
According to AccuWeather meteorologists, the steamy air over the Northeast will help set the stage for daily rounds of heavy to severe electrical storms through the conclusion of the week.Anyone venturing outdoors in the neighborhood may believe they have been transported to Florida due to the excessive humidity levels that have made it feel...
dreamstime.comAccuweather.com was the most viewed climate webpage in the ninth month of 2021. The average amount of time people spend on the site is zero minutes, and they view 2.19 pages per visit. Pages per visit is a standard engagement statistic that is calculated by dividing the number of views on a website by...
Santa Claus isn't expected to notice smoke. Misty smoke of raging Arctic wildfires has reached the North Pole for the first time in recorded history, and NASA satellites have photographs to prove it.On the sixth of August, NASA's MODIS, a photographic sensor on the Aqua satellite, captured true-color images of a "vast, thick, acrid...
The Venus’s-flower-basket is a sea sponge found at depths of 100 to 1,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean near the Philippines. A new study shows how the creature’s porous, glassy skeleton alters the flow of seawater.Simulations reveal that this deep-sea glass sponge's skeleton is more than simply prettyA Venus's flower basket is not all...
According to new study from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, changes in major wind and ocean circulation systems can briefly accelerate or reverse the rate of ocean acidification in the Gulf of Alaska.According to Claudine Hauri, a researcher at the UAF International Arctic Research Center, ocean acidification is typically viewed as a slow push...
