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China's Chang'e 6 lunar samples suggest our moon is debris from an ancient Earth impact
Analysis of samples brought back from the farside of the Moon by the Chang'e 6 mission have found the water content of the ...
Soil from the moon's far side suggests drier conditions than the side facing Earth
Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, ...
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Great Lakes basins may have formed millions of years ago from activity deep in the Earth — long before glaciers, study finds
As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of ...
The largest flood in Earth’s history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years, study shows
A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.
Chinese Lunar Rocks Suggest a Thirsty Far Side of the Moon
Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see ...
The remote locale that shielded plants during Earth’s biggest mass extinction
About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.
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Dust dynamics and atmospheric circulation shifts in the Tarim Basin during the Glacial–Holocene transition
To fill this gap, a research team from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied the Tarim Basin. The researchers selected a representative aeolian loess ...