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Volcanism in the Andes

The volcanoes of the Andes are particularly explosive. The oceanic plate that dips below the continental one contains a lot of water. The water evaporates in the glowing magma. High pressure is created, which discharges at the Earth's surface in massive volcanoes. Source: https://www.zdf.de/dokumen

ScienceCasts: Worlds within Worlds

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen evaporating from a Neptune-sized planet named GJ 436b. The planet’s atmosphere is evaporating because of extreme irradiation from its parent star. Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. Click here to see

Creation of the Mediterranean Sea

Only a huge flood catastrophe 5.3 million years ago caused the Mediterranean Sea to develop in its present form. From the Atlantic immense water masses flowed over the dam near Gibraltar and filled the dried up Mediterranean basin. Author: ZDF/3sat/nano/Gregor Steinbrenner/Kelvin Film GmbH/Sylvia L

What Hubble Taught Us About The Planets

Learn about the Hubble Space Telescope's contributions to our scientific understanding of the solar system in this video from NASA. Hubble has studied all of the planets in the solar system except Mercury. Some of Hubble's notable accomplishments include observations of the climate of Venus, dust st