Their charts reveal a diverse terrain of mountains, plains, valleys, craters and lakes unlike anywhere in the Solar System outside Earth. The Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017 ...

fostering increasingly complete characterization of Earth’s microbial diversity. Figure 1: Environment type and provenance of samples. Figure 2: Alpha-diversity, beta-diversity, and predicted ...

Microbial diversity below seafloor is as rich as on Earth's surface Date: October 20, 2020 Source: University of Rhode Island Summary: For the first time, researchers have mapped the biological ...

“Research in and with developing countries offers a range of exciting research questions that have the potential to make a positive impact on the people living there,” explains Wegner. He says that ...

Another key finding of the 15-year scientific effort is that more than 80% of the earth’s minerals were mediated by water, which is, therefore, fundamentally important to mineral diversity.

Robert Hazen Dr Robert Hazen, staff scientist with the Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, America, said: “This work fundamentally changes our view of the diversity ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. A 15-year study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth ...