Scientists are charting landing spots that offer future lunar astronauts protection from the Sun and deep space.
landscape & topography
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The Connections Between Landscape Fires and Your Health
A transdisciplinary reference guide to investigating relationships between biomass burning during landscape fires, the smoke it creates, and the impacts on human health and well-being.
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Shallower Clouds Hang More Often over Lost Forests
Two decades of satellite data show that deforestation in Southeast Asia has led to widespread low-lying clouds that might affect regional climate.
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La extracción de agua subterránea está causando el hundimiento de la CDMX
Investigadores aseguran que saber cuánta agua está siendo extraída es crucial para resolver la crisis de infraestructura y de abastecimiento de agua en la capital.
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Mapping Mars: Deep Learning Could Help Identify Jezero Crater Landing Site
Researchers used new techniques to more precisely estimate ground elevations on Mars, producing a refined resolution map for rover landings.
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Here’s How Artemis Astronauts Will Navigate on the Moon
The next wave of lunar explorers is headed to terrain that promises to be both stunning and challenging. Here’s how they’ll cope with some of the difficulties they’ll encounter.
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Revealing a Catchment’s Erosional Secrets: Grain Size Matters
A provenance study with 699 new samples from 12 different sediment grain sizes (from sand to boulder) shows that each fraction originates from distinct parts of a mountain catchment in California.
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Carbon Dioxide’s Effect on Mountain Climate Systems
Greenhouse gases are rising in the atmosphere. But how will precipitation patterns change as climate systems rise over mountain chains?
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Five Martian Mysteries That Have Scientists Scratching Their Heads
Despite centuries of study and many spacecraft visits, the Red Planet still holds secrets. Here are just a few.
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Desert Landscape Evolution Controlled by Storm Intensity
A new study in the Negev Desert finds that long-term erosion of a desert escarpment occurs in drier areas where intense storms are most frequent.