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Towering Plume From Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki
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Published July 7, 2025
An explosive eruption sent a kilometers-high column of volcanic material over Indonesia.
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Blast From the Past: Arizona’s Meteor Crater
Published July 4, 2025
The “young” and well-preserved crater helps scientists understand cratering processes on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
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Lake Titicaca in Sunglint
The optical phenomenon revealed features on and below the Peruvian lake’s surface, such as wind patterns, natural surface films, and boat wakes.
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Blast from the Past: Deciphering India’s Luna Crater
Published July 5, 2025
A round depression in the salty plains of the Kutch Basin reveals telltale signs of a prehistoric meteorite impact.
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Flooding Along the Uruguay and Ibicuí Rivers
Published July 2, 2025
Astronaut photos captured the aftermath of torrential rainfall in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state.
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Blast From the Past: Sweden’s Siljan Ring
Published July 6, 2025
The idyllic region of Dalarna County is the site of an ancient, powerful collision.
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Blast From the Past: Young Impact Crater Uncovered in Yilan
Published July 3, 2025
The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China.
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Blast From the Past: Vredefort Crater
The world’s oldest and largest known impact structure shows some of the most extreme deformation conditions known on Earth.
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Blast From the Past: A Modern Lake in an Ancient Crater
Published July 1, 2025
Famously visible from space, ring-shaped Manicouagan Lake was filled at the dawn of the Space Age when Canada dammed a river to flood a Triassic-aged impact crater.
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A Cosmic Explosion Over Siberia
Published June 30, 2025
On June 30, 1908, an incoming fireball exploded kilometers above Earth’s surface, scorching and toppling large numbers of trees.
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Western Mountain Snow Melts Fast and Early
Published June 27, 2025
A warm and dry spring in the Pacific Northwest quickly depleted the seasonal snowpack, raising concern over summer water supplies and wildland fire risk.
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A Dusty Vestige of the Old West
Published June 29, 2025
Owens Lake, an arid playa tucked between the Inyo Mountains and the Sierra Nevada in California, is the site of dust mitigation efforts.
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