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Slowing continental plate motion has controlled the timing of Earth's largest volcanic events

Slowing continental plate motion has controlled the timing of Earth’s largest volcanic events

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 public domain Scientists have shed new light on the timing and probable cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheavals that they triggered some of the extinction events the most devastating in the history of the Earth. Surprisingly, the new research, published today …

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NASA lunar launch timing may depend on emergency detonation system

NASA lunar launch timing may depend on emergency detonation system

Like all large rockets, NASA’s Space Launch System is equipped with powerful engines and thousands of gallons of highly combustible propellants capable of lifting a propellant the size of a large building from Earth and traveling many times the speed of sound outside the atmosphere. Officially known as the Flight Termination System, this is a …

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