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In this artist’s rendition, a satellite consisting of two umbrella-shaped instruments and two solar panels is seen in the foreground. In the background, a crescent of Earth is shown in the blackness of space.
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Next NASA Field Campaign Could Fund Projects in Drylands or Tropics

by Saima May Sidik 1 November 20241 November 2024

Scientific feedback can improve proposals and signal support for large-scale, intensive climate research.

The Tajogaite volcano erupts with lava and gases in 2021.
Posted inScience Updates

Volcanic Anatomy, Mapped as It Erupts

by Vittorio Zanon and Luca D’Auria 27 September 202427 September 2024

Testing during the 2021 Tajogaite eruption on La Palma demonstrated the value of near-real-time petrological analyses as a supplement to seismic and geochemical data for eruption monitoring.

Milford Sound in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Earth’s Eighth Continent

by Caryl-Sue Micalizio 24 September 202424 September 2024

Our October issue digs deep into the rich Earth science in and around Aotearoa New Zealand.

The orange glow from erupting lava illuminates the area around the summit of Kīlauea volcano under a star-filled night sky.
Posted inScience Updates

An Unprecedented Experiment to Map Kīlauea’s Summit Magma System

by Roger Denlinger, Daniel R. H. O’Connell, Guoqing Lin, Steve Roecker and Ninfa Bennington 18 September 202423 September 2024

Dozens of researchers deployed nearly 2,000 seismic stations—and a T-Rex—to better illuminate subsurface structure and magma storage below the summit of the highly active volcano.

Placid image of the fjord of Doubtful Sound in New Zealand
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Exploring New Zealand’s Remote Fjords

by Kate Evans 12 August 202424 September 2024

Doing research in Fiordland—a vast territory of mountains, forests, and fiords in southwest New Zealand—takes ingenuity, collaboration, and a really good raincoat.

Red-tinted water flows in a shallow stretch of river, with a rocky shoreline and forested hillslope in the background.
Posted inScience Updates

How Great was the “Great Oxidation Event”?

by Aubrey Zerkle 30 July 202416 January 2025

Geochemical sleuthing amid acid mine runoff suggests that scientists should rethink an isotope signal long taken to indicate low levels of atmospheric oxygen in Earth’s deep past.

A large research vessel on the ocean on a sunny day
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The JOIDES Resolution Embarks on Its Final Expedition

by Grace van Deelen 6 June 20246 June 2024

On the ship’s last cruise, scientists will collect data to help predict future effects of climate change.

2017 NASA astronaut candidates and their field instructors hike as a team. at Meteor Crater in Arizona.
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The Art of Doing Fieldwork on the Moon

Mark Betancourt, Freelance Journalist by Mark Betancourt 23 May 202412 August 2024

How ­early-career planetary scientists are preparing to support the astronauts who will return to the lunar surface and beyond.

An ice floe floats in the Amundsen Sea close to the shore of West Antarctica.
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Confined at Sea at the End of the World

by Sofia Moutinho 23 May 202423 May 2024

Embedded on a research cruise in the Antarctic, a journalist joins a scientists’ “summer camp.”

Scientists are lowered from the deck of R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer to the sea ice of the Southern Ocean as part of a GEOTRACES research cruise.
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Charting New Territory

by Caryl-Sue Micalizio 23 May 20249 July 2024

From the abyss of the Antarctic to proxy lunar landscapes in Arizona, fieldwork gives Earth and space scientists insight and experience.

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