Photos like these scares and fascinates in equal doses. The sheer scale of these holes reminds you of just how tiny you are. The face of the Earth is beleaguered with giant scars, scoured out in our ongoing bid to the plunder the planet of its natural resources.
Researchers need accurate and timely rainfall information to better understand and model where and when severe floods, frequent landslides and devastating droughts may occur. GPM’s global rainfall data will help to better prepare and respond to a wide range of natural disasters.
It’s been a long road to the discovery that Earth is not the center of the Solar System, the Milky Way, or the universe; great thinkers from Aristotle to Bruno have grappled with it for millennia. But if we aren’t at the center of the universe, what is? Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens discuss where we stand in the (very) big scheme of things.
Is it in the Arctic Ocean? In Canada? Russia?
This is interesting and slightly scary at the same time…
The best tornado shots of the year. Powerful images of twisters, lightning and shelf clouds. Beautiful and devastating.