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Explorations in Caves

Images of scientists exploring dark cave formations, with dramatic lighting and geological features. Highlights the fascinating underground environments and research activities.

group of scientists exploring the Leidarendi lava cave in Iceland
group of scientists exploring the Leidarendi lava cave in Iceland
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Self portrait in a section of cave with a large ramp leading up to a vertical section of cave in Speedwell Cavern called Block H
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Experiementers test for nuclear material leakage, Yucca Mountain, AZ, USA.
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group of scientists exploring the Leidarendi lava cave in Iceland
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Cave explorer in big 'Harnischhalle'
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Potholer touching a stalagmite whilst exploring the Graller del Boixaguer cave, Montsec mountains, Pyrenees, Catalonia, Spain, May 2012. Model released.
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scientist exploring the Leidarendi lava cave in Iceland
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COVACHO DEL PONTON DE LA OLIVA (107/1R): VISTA GENERAL DEL PANEL DE PINTURAS.
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An expedition team scans El Cenote inside Conturines Spitze in the Italian Dolomites using a high precision 3D laser scanner.
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Researcher explores the caves in Gunung Mulu National Park in Malaysia; Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
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Girl speleologist Girl speleologist. Cave in the Pinega region .Arhangelsk region Copyright: xZoonar.com/MYCHKO ALEXx 10732740
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Cave Explorers use a Leica Disto to survey a large tunnel in Monn Cave
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Self portrait in a section of cave with a large ramp leading up to a vertical section of cave in Speedwell Cavern called Block H
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Underground diver descending into the first well of the Buèges spring, Hérault, France
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An expedition team scans El Cenote inside Conturines Spitze in the Italian Dolomites using a high precision 3D laser scanner.
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Researchers examining stalagmite in the caves of Gunung Mulu National Park in Malaysia; Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
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Archaeologists of the Goethe-University Frankfurt at the scientific recording of rock paintings in the De Riet cave, near De Riet, Huab-Dry River, Kunene region, Namibia, Africa
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NTS A871105 SANDIA NATIONAL LABS U12G DYNAMIC GROUT STUDY MINE BACK CARL SMITH (Project Engineer) AUG 11 87 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 8/11/1987  CABLES; DYNAMIC GROUT STUDY; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EXPERIMENTAL LEARNING; G-TUNNEL; GROUT EXPERIMENT; GROUT STUDY; GROUTS; MINEBACK; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Caucasian climber exploring rock cave
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A hiker is looking at the handprints, a type of petroglyph called petrosomatoglyphs, likely made by Ancestral Puebloans between 300-1300 AD in Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah, United States.
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An expedition team scans El Cenote inside Conturines Spitze in the Italian Dolomites using a high precision 3D laser scanner.
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A770938 U12G PUFF-N-TUFF H.E. DRIFT J. TALBUTT (Project Engineer) APR 11 77 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/11/1977  EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; FLOODED; G-TUNNEL; H.E. DRIFT; HOSES (WATERING); HYDRA FRAC; LIGHTS (ELECTRIC); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR TESTING; PUFF-N-TUFF; PUFF-N-TUFF H.E. DRIFT; PUFF-N-TUFF TEST; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); TALBUTT, J.; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Egypt, Valley of the Kings, Skeleton of an adult male found in chamber 2 of KV 5
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female exploring a cave, fernie, british columbia, canada
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CUEVA DE PEDRO FERNANDEZ. ESTREMERA, COMUNINDAD DE MADRID, ESPAÑA.
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Proterozoic Castner Marble with garnet porphyroblasts, Franklin Mountains, Texas.  (100201-39)
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Two geologists explore cave under glacier, science and study
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Visits to the underground caves created by lava in the Grand Brûlé area, also called lavatubes. Because lava tubes remain buried, often not recognized in the surface. However, many lava tubes are delineated on the surface by a series of linear or curvilinear collapse depressions, called ventilation holes along the tube axis. In active lava tubes, skylights provide a unique insight into the actively flowing hot lava in the lava tube system.
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Interlayered basaltic (dark) and felsic (light) ash layers in the east wall of West Rota caldera. Mariana Arc region, Western Pacific Ocean. Dated 2004
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Rebreather diver. Diver who has just taken a piece of stalactite which was lying on the ground. This sample will allow us to know more about this cave and perhaps discover the date of its immersion. Underwater cave, Mayotte
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The Underworld - Photographs from caves all over the world
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A89967 U12G DGS#2 MINEBACK CARL SMITH (Project Engineer) JUL 25 89 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 7/25/1989  DGS; DGS #2; DGS II MINEBACK; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); G-TUNNEL; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MINEBACK; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; PIPES; ROCKS; TAPE MEASURES; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; DGS #2-MINEBACK  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Lava River Cave, cave explorer wearing a headlamp in a volcanic lava tube, Newberry National Volcanic Monument, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, USA, North America
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Copper smelting hearth furnace at Timna. 1400 BC. King Solomon's Mines, Negev Desert.
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Fault gouge developed along the Cretan Detachment fault, Greece
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A770474 U12G HYDRA FRAC BILL VOLLENDORF(Project Engineer) FEB 24 77EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/24/1977  CRACKED; CRACKS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EVALUATION XC 4; FRACTURES; HYDRA FRAC; HYDRA FRAC TEST; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; MALE; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); MARKED; MARKINGS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; PICKAXES; SIGNS; TAPE MEASURES; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; VOLLENDORF, BILL  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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A800386 U12G MULTI FRAC GF-4 MINEBACK FINLEY (Project Engineer) MAR 17 80 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/17/1980  EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; G-TUNNEL; GF-4; GF-4 MINEBACK; MINES, LAND (WEAPON); MULTI FRAC; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Hanksville, Utah, Researchers simulate living on Mars at the Mars Desert Research Station. 'Expedition Boomerang' brought Australian researchers to the station, who donned space suits to explore their surroundings
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Mongolia,  Near Dalanzadgad, Gobi Desert, Bayanzag, Flaming Cliffs, Dr. Badamgarav Excavating Dinosaur Egg
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Cave Tarantula (Hemirrhagus reddelli) observed by Peter Sprouse, Oaxaca, Mexico
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A cave explorer admires pretty formations in a cave in New Britain
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Stromatolite Fossils.
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Diver Entering Cave
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Man in cave speologist group walking deep inside a cave exploring Copyright: xZoonar.com/tudorxantonelxadrianx 1489800
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A781059 U12G EARTH PENETRATOR BEN BENJAMIN (Project Engineer) AUG 24 78 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 8/24/1978  BARRELS, GUN; BENJAMIN, BENJAMIN CODY; CANNONS; EARTH PENETRATOR CANNON; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); GUNS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR TESTING; PENETRATORS; PIPES; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; EARTH PENETRATOR  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Mutnovski Vulkan Mutnovski Vulkan Copyright: xZoonar.com/JensxNieswandtx 1021046
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Deformed Silurian-Devonian schist of the Waits River Formation with asymmetric quartz lenses, near West Hartford, Vermont (220905-19)
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ISS014-E-18950 (3 April 2007) --- Covered with snow and ice, Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 14 crewmember on the International Space Station.
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Divers in the old Miltitz lime mine
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A861538 U12G JAWS MINEBACK TALBUTT (Project Engineer) DEC 16 86 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 12/16/1986  EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; G-TUNNEL; MARKED; MARKINGS ON ROCK; MINEBACK; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; ROCKS; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); TALBUTT, JIM S; TEST SITES; TUNNELED; TUNNELS; U12G; U12G JAWS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS EFFECTS; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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A Scientist Takes a Lava Sample on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
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William Saturno, at San Bartolo excavation of Maya Mural depicting Corn god myth dating prior to 100 AD, found in Maya pyramid, previously thought to date to Classical period 250 AD, Guatemala.
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erkunden,entdecken,höhle,fackel,entdecker,speläologie,entdeckung,höhlen,höhlenforschung,höhlenkunde,speleologie ** explore,discover,cave,flaming torch,discoverer,speleology,explores,discovery,caves,flaming torchs,speleologies 539-m5z ,model released, Symbolfoto
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A female cave explorer wades through the terminal Gour Pool so very close to the surface at the most remote part of Whiterock (c
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CUEVA DE SANTIMAMIÑE. FORMACIONES GEOLOGICAS. ESTALAGMITAS Y ESTALACTITAS. VIZCAYA, PAIS VASCO, ESPAÑA.
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Caving Expedition to explore the caves of the Tongzi mastersystem in northern Wulong County, Chongqing Province of China
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Experiementers test for nuclear material leakage, Yucca Mountain, AZ, USA.
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Cave seismic Franco-Italian Concordia Station Antarctica
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Luc Ebbo, paleontologist. Fossilized bone fragments showing the characteristic fibrous texture. Albian blue marls of Sisteron. Ebbo collection
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Lithics and pumice in ash flow tuff of Santorini (Minoan) eruption, 3600 years ago, Greece.
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Mars on Earth
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A770539 U12G HYDRA FRAC BILL VOLLENDORF (Project Engineer) MAR 10 77 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/10/1977  EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; HYDRA FRAC; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; MALE; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); MINING; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR TESTING; PICKAXES; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); SIGNS; TAPE MEASURES; TEST SITES; TUNNELING; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; VOLLENDORF, BILL  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Simian tip and Petroglyphe in the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile
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Hanksville, Utah, Researchers simulate living on Mars at the Mars Desert Research Station. 'Expedition Boomerang' brought Australian researchers to the station. Crew commander Andrew Wheeler led Jennifer Lane and Dr. Shane Usher on a walk to sample the area's soil and rocks
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Scientist Rick Wessels examines ice-rich lahar deposits from the March 22, 2009 flood that are rapidly changing as subsequent floods and warm weather work on them. This location is on the south side of the lower Drift River Valley.
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Volcanologists collecting minerals samples on Gran Cratere, Vulcano Island, Aeolian Islands, Sicily, Italy
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Hoba meteorite the largest meteorite ever found and the most massive naturally-occurring piece of iron known in the world, Namibia
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Scientific research in winter on Mt. Washington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
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Scuba diver inside Jabula cave that is located outside the island of Kolocep, on the side facing the open sea. The entrance is located just below the surface, inside there is an air space where you can admire the stalactites. Dubrovnik, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean
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Scientists explore the caves in Gunung Mulu National Park in Malaysia; Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
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June 19, 2006 - Stromboli eruption, Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily, Italy
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Glacial research in the summit crater of Redoubt Volcano. Bob Gerhard passes an ice core sample to Matthew Sturm, staff from Lake Clark National Park and the Alaska Geophysical Institute, Alaska.
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group of people, scientists, looking at water holes in ground rock
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Luc Ebbo, paleontologist, observing the blue marls of the Albian of Sisteron. Ebbo collection
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security man observe incandescent flowing volcanic lava in volcano
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Girl at a Dinosaur fossil, Dinosaur Provincial Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Alberta, Canada, North America
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A870110 NEW TYPICAL HLOS DRAWING EDWARDS (Project Engineer) JAN 21 87 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 1/21/1987  DRAWINGS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EDWARDS, B. G.; EDWARDS, BOBBY G.; EG&G; ILLUSTRATIONS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NEW TYPICAL HLOS; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS EFFECTS; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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One of the first autotype photographs of the underground Aquarium du Trocadero, Paris, France, circa 1880, Europe
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Ojo Guareña, karst complex, , Espinosa de los Monteros, Castilla y Leon, Spain.
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Volcanic terrain with thermal smoke emitting
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Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar and a accompaning (learning for the the classroom) team of teachers will be studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets. Why the Mojave -- an inhospitable, sun-drenched spot in the California Desert This natural setting presents scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers and scientists will perform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radiation. for additional information and Outreach projects see http //quest.arc.nasa.gov/ shown here are Dr Chris McKay and Monika Kress, Professor of Astronomy at San Jose State University
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Timanfaya National Park, Spain, April 24, 2022: Ranger demonstrating heat of the volcano by pouring water that immediately becomes a steam, Europe
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Prehistory : Neandertal Men Hunting Mammouth
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