Earth
The New Blue Marble
[/caption] Despite recent news of potential habitable exoplanets and amazing images of Mars and the Saturn system returned from visiting…
Watch the Effects of Earthquakes Just Hours After They Occur
Princeton University has developed software that can produce realistic “movies” of earthquakes based on complex computer simulations, and these visualizations…
What Is Water Made Of
[/caption] The answer to 'what is water made of' is as easy as you want it to be. Do you…
What is Carbon Dioxide?
CO2 is more than just the stuff that comes out of smokestacks, tailpipes, cigarettes and campfires. It is also a…
What Color is the Sky
[/caption] If you are a parent or are old enough to babysit younger relatives there is one question children ask…
What Is The Largest Island In The World
[/caption] If you were asked what is the largest island in the world, what would you say? Australia maybe? Greenland…
What Is The Largest Continent
[/caption] There are a few different ways to answer 'what is the largest continent'. The first is by area and…
What is an Avalanche?
Have you ever noticed how the snow packs on a car windshield after a heavy snowfall? While the temperature is…
Equator
[/caption] An equator is an imaginary line that runs around the surface of a planet, perpendicular to the sphere's axis…
What Is Pangaea?
So, you are curious about what is Pangaea? It was the supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago during the…