Category Archives: planets

What on Google Earth?*

Jani has been exploring the Sahara Desert using Google Earth, and would like to know if this structure in southeast Algeria is a crater or not (it can be found at 22 48′ N 9 29′ E): Before I give … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards, geology, planets

Don’t put your faith in (no) sunspots

Reports of a Maunder-like minimum are somewhat premature
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Categories: climate science, planets

Martian plate tectonics

Are striped magnetic anomalies on the Red Planet evidence of ancient sea-floor spreading?
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Categories: geology, geophysics, planets, tectonics

Venusian datafest in Nature

Anyone interested in Venus will be very happy with this week’s issue of Nature, which has published a raft of papers detailing the latest findings of the European Space Agency’s Venus Express probe, which has been orbiting our inner planetary … Continue reading

Categories: planets

Polar views

The north pole of Titan, courtesy of Cassini: Here’s why we think the dark patches are lakes, which everyone is very excited about. The first snapshots of Titan’s southern polar region have also found a couple of probable small lakes, … Continue reading

Categories: climate science, planets