according to the Earth Observatory. Some researchers think Haruj is made up of two separate volcanic fields: Al Haruj al Aswad, which is located in the north and contains much older lava ...

It creates the Earth's magnetic field and is about 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) thick. The next layer is the mantle. Many people think of this as lava ... Seafloor is made of a denser rock ...

Lava flows are masses of magma that pour onto the Earth's surface during an eruption ... a solid portion made of minerals that crystallized directly from the melt; solid rocks incorporated ...

Lava would erupt from their center ... their ambitious idea really made us wonder… What would happen if Earth had two moons? Well, it wouldn't be pretty. Imagine the Moon's identical twin ...

Abby Tang: This is lava. And this is also lava. One's man-made, and one's, well, coughed up by Mother Earth. But both these scientists are working toward the exact same goal: figuring out how to ...

The Lanzarote lava tube system is an accessible testing ground for DLR's SCOUT Rover, tailor-made for navigating the ... Space is dangerous. Without Earth's protective magnetic field, solar ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world ... Not only was the hot spot larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, but it also ...

widely known as lava tubes, are formed in a geological instant—a year or two, sometimes weeks—by an eruption from the Earth’s crust. Most of Hawaii’s lava tubes are formed by a type of ...