The Tectonic plates are moving
The San Andreas Fault in California is a temporary crack that marks the boundary between the planet’s two major tectonic plates. Length: 1,200km • Depth: 32km
The San Andreas Fault in California is a temporary crack that marks the boundary between the planet’s two major tectonic plates. Length: 1,200km • Depth: 32km
Built by the Japanese private company ispace, the Hakuto-r lander launched on December 11 aboard a Falcon-9 rocket and entered lunar orbit on March 21. The Hakuto-r Lander weighs about 1000 Kg and carries the Rasheed Lunar Rover weighing 10 Kg. If the mission is successful, Hakuto-r will be the first private probe to soft…
This immense mountain range began to form between 40 and 50 million years ago, when two large landmasses, India and Eurasia, driven by plate movement, collided. Because both these continental landmasses have about the same rock density, one plate could not be subducted under the other. Shells and marine fossils are found in the limestone…
Densely green forest, beautiful beaches, clear waters and long shallow seas dotted with sea-puts, this isolated island in the Andaman archipelago is home to life, but once you land, you will never see the outside world again. The wildlife here is not the problem. Behind it is a very aggressive tribe called senitinellese. In 1974,…