Tag: Mars
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ABC’s The Science Show: Opals on Mars?
ABC’s “The Science Show” has a fascinating segment about the opals of Australia. 90% of the opals on Earth come from Australia. Many come from the cities of Lightning Ridge and Coober Pedy. They formed about 120 million years ago when the conditions were perfect for opal creation. There’s also a discussion about the process…
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PBS Eons: A Natural History of Mars
PBS Eons has a new episode on Youtube. This one is about Mars… how has it changed over the year? While Earth’s natural history has been playing out over the last few billion years, another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door.
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ESCONI February 2021 General Meeting – February 12th, 2021 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “Assessing the Early Mars Hydroclimate Using Paleolake Geometries”
Did rainfall and snowmelt fill rivers and lakes on Mars? GETTY Our February 2021 speaker via Zoom will be Dr. Gaia Stucky de Quay from the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. The topic of her talk will be evidence for water and its effect on the geomorphology of early Mars.…
