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The Abyss of Time

On a boat at a rocky promontory in Scotland, farmer James Hutton made an argument that changed our understanding of Earth’s age and helped establish the science of geology.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Video by the British Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published August 14, 2018
Data acquired June 4, 2018

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Landsat 8 > OLI