The following are some images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter—illustrated above—that capture the explosive ...

Dec. 10, 2024 — Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency ... the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change ...

Unlike Earth, where avalanches involve snow and rock ... In 2015, NASA’s HiRISE (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera captured a jaw-dropping image of a 66-foot-wide chunk of ...

The findings are published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews. The study focuses on the most common natural hazards in the ...

Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters.

Slab avalanches are the result of an intricate ... This image relates to an article that appeared in the July 11, 2008, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Joachim Heierli ...

The behavior of an avalanche depends on the structure of the snowpack, but that’s only one ingredient. An avalanche requires all the wrong conditions at the wrong time. The angle of the mountain ...

When the rimwall of Iapetus’s Malun crater broke off and plunged more than five miles to the crater floor, it surged an astonishing 22 miles out from the base of the wall before finally coming ...

Within only a few moments, a catastrophic avalanche ... statistics and computer science. Geology sheds light on how the Earth came to be the way it is today, how it might change in the future ...