It's not a new weather phenomenon but it plays a daily role in weather clouds, rain and even storms can form. What is an ...

Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere.

In a case of KH waves, the air at the top of the cloud layer is moving faster than the air at the bottom of the cloud layer. This sort of turbulent motion causes the repetitive effect of crashing ...

How core-mantle differentiation influenced the distribution of volatile elements on Earth. Imagine Earth's history as a ...

Earth's atmosphere is divided into several distinct layers, each characterized by specific temperature variations, composition, and phenomena. Below are the primary layers of the atmosphere, from the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has made a major discovery that could help explain what happened to Mars’ ancient atmosphere—and why the planet became so dry and lifeless. For years, scientists have believed ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered siderite in Gale Crater. This shows Mars had a partial carbon cycle, storing and releasing ...

Though once thought to be siphonophores — colonies of specialized zooids — the velella velella is now classified as a single ...

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.