The German mining engineer Georgius Agricola (1494-1555) dedicated in his textbook "De re metallica" (1556) an entire chapter to the distribution of valuable rocks in earth's crust. The written ...

Drawing on data from satellites and Apollo-era missions, scientists at the US Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute have pieced together what they say is the first ...

Geologic maps are used to locate natural resources, such as water or oil, or the best place to hunt for fossils, but they can also be eye catching works of art. Sharon Purdy A low-lying topographic ...

A research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a new high-resolution geologic map of the Moon. The map includes discoveries made in the last ten years, like an updated chronology ...

For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified. The lunar map, called the 'Unified Geologic Map of the Moon,' will serve as the definitive blueprint ...

Eugene Shoemaker with some of the first geologic maps of the Moon, Flagstaff AZ, mid-1960's Many people are surprised when they learn that well before the first landing of Apollo in 1969, we already ...

For 15 months between 2011 and 2012, the Dawn spacecraft orbited the asteroid called Vesta, snapping high-resolution pictures of the cratered, potato-shaped rock. Scientists then spent another two and ...

March 23, 1769 marks the birthday of pioneering stratigrapher William Smith, who is also credited with creating the first useful geological map, however like many other great accomplishments also ...

Remote sensing has transformed mineral exploration and geological mapping by enabling rapid, non-invasive characterisation of the Earth’s surface across challenging and inaccessible terrains. Advanced ...

It's been 50 years since humanity last visited the Moon, and we're planning on returning to our celestial friend in the sky pretty soon. And this time, we'll have a better understanding of what makes ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A newly created geological map of Pluto's famous heart-shaped region shows just how varied and ...