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Imaggeo on Mondays: Sand and snow on the Tibetan Plateau

June 3, 2019
Imaggeo on Mondays: Sand and snow on the Tibetan Plateau
Snow & Sand in Harmony. Credit: Monica Cardarilli (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu).

Roughly 50 million years ago, the Eurasian and Indian continental plates began to crash into each other, dramatically changing the landscape of modern-day Asia. The force of the collision caused the Earth to scrunch together at the zone of impact, subsequently forming the Himalayan mountain range. However, to the north of the crash, a stretch of the Earth uplifted without bunching up or wrinkling; ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: A painted forest fire

May 27, 2019
Imaggeo on Mondays: A painted forest fire
The art of Fire in soil system. Credit: Victoria Arcenegui (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This week’s featured image may appear to be a painted landscape, but the picture is in fact a photo, taken ten years ago by Victoria Arcenegui, an associate professor at Miguel Hernández University in Spain, during a controlled forest fire in northern Portugal. The blaze is actually hot enough to distort the image, making some of the flames appear as brush strokes, beautifully blurring together th ...[Read More]

IGLUNA: students work towards building an icy human habitat on the Moon!

May 22, 2019
IGLUNA: students work towards building an icy human habitat on the Moon!
Artist’s impression of a lunar habitat in Ice on the Moon. Credits: ESA

What does it take to build a habitat in ice on the Moon? An international group of university students and professionals is working together to provide this answer and develop a sustainable and operational habitat in lunar ice. The project is called IGLUNA and is organised by the Swiss Space Center and the European Space Agency (ESA) as the first initiative from ESA_Lab, an ESA interuniversity res ...[Read More]