Spirit, one of the Mars Exploration Rovers, reached the top of Husband Hill. Great view, huh?
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Haleakala Panorama
July 24, 2005 – 1:15 am
An Autostitch panorama made from several photos of Haleakala looking southeast from a point overlooking Maalaea Bay during a visit to Maui last October.
Magnitude Five or Greater Quake RSS Feed
January 17, 2004 – 12:00 am
From Fluid Flow an RSS feed from the USGS of earthquakes measuring at least magnitude 5.0.
A Big One near the Central Coast
December 22, 2003 – 12:00 am
This quake was 200 miles south of us, but we felt it here as a series of slow, rolling waves. Hope everyone’s okay down there. Update: Doc reports. Power and phones are down, but no major damage or casualties. Update 2: Spoke too soon. Reports of deaths in Paseo Robles.
360 degree panorama from the top of Mt. Everest
June 3, 2003 – 12:00 am
[ via Memepool ] Wow. Someone took a 360 degree panoramic photo from the summit of Mt. Everest. That’s a view. [ QuickTime ]
Martian Pond Scum?
March 14, 2003 – 12:00 am
[ via Joshua ] Evidence of brackish water on Mars. Not in the past, but now. That water is probably brackish, the Wiezmann Institue’s found some varieties of bacteria that do well in such an environment. I wonder if that’s permafrost melting under pressure as the billions of tons of rock atop it occasionaly shifts [...]
Some Old Footprints
March 12, 2003 – 12:00 am
[ via Laura V. ] A group of proto-humans, running across a field of ash on the slopes of a volcano some 350,000 years ago, left the oldest known footprints. Corrected from 600,000 years ago.
An Old Planetary Bruise
March 11, 2003 – 12:00 am
NASA announced a recent visualization of the Chicxulub impact (65 Million Years BCE) on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. The rendering was made from radar data collected from a recent Space Shuttle flight, and shows a semi-circular area of sedementary rock, accumlated after the impact, that eroded in a such a way as to betray [...]
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
March 10, 2003 – 12:00 am
The USGS Flagstaff center maintains a Gazetteer index of named features on worlds throughout the Solar System. There’s a set of rules for what you name features (craters, etc.) after. The site also has a set of topgraphic maps of Mars, made using the Mars Observer’s laser altimeter. I found the site reading Oliver Morton’s [...]
Update of the Kilauea Volcano Eruption
November 28, 2002 – 12:00 am
[ via Ctein ] The chief geologist of the Kilauea Volcano site goes out every morning and takes photos of the most impressive flows, then posts them to the USGS site. So it’s a Volcano Weblog! We thought this photo was impressive.
I Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet
May 13, 2002 – 12:00 am
The room shook, but no damage. There was a 5.2 tremblor centered just outside of Gilroy. I’m jaded, so read Cory for a reaction from someone fresh from the stable core of the North American Plate. And from Cory’s discussion group: Under California Law, you are not allowed to howl like a little girl unless [...]
Don’t be at Costco when the Big One hits
August 7, 2000 – 12:00 am
To tons of merchandise piled high on metal shelving, apply shearing and shaking forces. Don’t go warehousing in earthquake weather.
The Wedding Earthquake
October 20, 1999 – 12:00 am
For my friends Lucy and John, the Loma Prieta quake could not have happened at a worse time: four days before their wedding.
USGS Loma Prieta Site
October 17, 1999 – 12:00 am
The US Geological Survey launched a new site to present their work in the ten years after Loma Prieta.