Three logs had been lashed together and planted in the earth as a crude little fence.
But cracks are there in the earth and you see some evidence of movement.
But gamma-ray telescopes are also confused by charged particles trapped in the earth's magnetic field.
And as a result, Viking was highly tested both in laboratory facilities and in the Earth's atmosphere.
They stayed close by and made bouquets of weeds or pressed round stones and pebbles in the earth.
And soon a dictator who had used poison gas on his own people was found cowering in the earth.
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Geothermal technology uses energy in the earth's crust to heat water and buildings.
No large hole in the earth's crust seems to be 202m years old.
One of these satellites, CloudSat, has given the first glimpses of the middle layer of clouds in the Earth's atmosphere.
From offshore oil to previously inaccessible gas deep in the earth, the federal domain is poised for an energy renaissance.
The faint traces of concrete foundations in the earth are a poignant reminder of the town that has been lost.
Specifically, what the scientists have found is that the iron adopts a crystalline structure, like a diamond, in the Earth's core.
Governments promised to protect forests in the Earth Summit 1992 and support sustainable logging operations in the world's remaining ancient forests.
Oil and gas this deep in the earth is often as hot as 450 degrees and at pressures 2, 000 times atmospheric.
He also finds that wobbles in the earth's temperature have followed those in the cosmic-ray flux for the past 60-odd years.
Northern waters are able to absorb and hold more gases, particularly carbon dioxide, which is growing steadily in the Earth's atmosphere.
He's philosophical about the extinction of the human race, for example, viewing it as just another stage in the Earth's life cycle.
These hydrocarbons of course lay in the earth for millions of years.
Flying high in the earth's atmosphere, where the air is thin, is, he says, rather like flying near the surface of Mars.
These projects cover different fields in the Earth Sciences and support interaction with other disciplines including hydrological, ecological, oceanographic, atmospheric and biological sciences.
When the cosmic rays and gamma rays smash into molecules in the Earth's atmosphere, they set off a cascade of other fast-moving particles.
So it is funding research into getting microorganisms to extract energy from things like metal ions abundant in the earth or solar electricity.
The Department of Energy estimates the amount of fluid hydrocarbons remaining in the Earth's crust is the equivalent of 7.6 trillion barrels of oil.
Earlier projections apparently failed to account for rebounding changes in the Earth's crust following the last Ice Age (referred to as "glacial isostatic adjustment").
In the 1980s he stumbled across an opening in the earth that was 50 meters in diameter and realized this was no ordinary cave.
The kimberlite eruption that occurred there about 53.3 million years ago opened a hole in the Earth's surface, sucking in some of those redwoods.
Greenhouse gases still warm planets, carbon dioxide is still a greenhouse gas and the amount of it in the Earth's atmosphere is still shooting up.
The most recent spikes in the Earth's temperature are no different, long term, than the peaks one finds beside deep valleys on the Earth's surface.
Previous governments also failed to maintain the crucial bridge, which is now warped and close to collapsing due to movements in the earth beneath it.
If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur.
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