Un núcleo de hielo que tiene registro más de 2 milenios, sugiere que la minería y la metalurgia aumentaron y disminuyeron con acontecimientos como las guerras y las epidemias.
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Martian Jumble May Be Hiding a Giant Volcano
The discovery of Noctis Mons could make the region a target for future Mars missions.
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Phased-Array Radar Detection of Electrically Aligned Ice Crystals
A new method for observing electrically aligned ice crystals in localized storms can detect the onset of electrification and lightning in developing storms.
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Tuning Improves High-Resolution Climate Simulations
Tuning parameterizations of turbulent mixing and of the fall velocity of precipitation and cloud ice alleviates long-standing biases in climate simulations.
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Melting Ice in the Polar North Drives Weather in Europe
Influxes of meltwater into the North Atlantic eventually lead to warmer and drier conditions over Europe.
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Antarctic Ice Cores Capture Heavy Metal Pollution—And History
An ice core record stretching back more than 2 millennia hints at the mining and metallurgy that waxed and waned with events such as wars and epidemics.
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Monitoring Polar Ice Change in the Twilight Zone
Landsat’s new extended data collection program is mapping Arctic and Antarctic regions year-round, even in polar twilight.
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That’s No Moon; It’s an Ocean World
If Saturn’s cratered moon Mimas has liquid water beneath its surface, ocean worlds might be far more common in the solar system than we thought.
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Frost Quakes Shake Up Finland’s Wetlands
New research shows frost quakes may happen more frequently in wetland areas and, similar to earthquakes, can cause damage to infrastructure.
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Glaciers Rise and Fall—and Melt—with Tides
The effect of ocean water creeping beneath Greenland ice is stronger than scientists realized.