In the remote, icy expanse of northern Greenland, the onset of spring transforms the landscape into a surreal scene. Meltwater channels, born from rising temperatures, carve through the ice, crea...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture-blue-river-greenland-24082011/
This drought is unprecedented in living memory, and is probably the worst such event in the last 500 years.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/drought-seen-from-space-feat/
Pretty. And pretty deadly.
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/lake-natron-red-space/
Just like a number of creatures, wood can fossilize too.
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/geopicture-week-petrified-wood/
This is a beautiful specimen, from recent finds at the Wudong Mine of China.
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/geopicture-week-colorful-crystal-mosaic/
For all its beauty, amethyst is a fairly common variety of quartz. This here isn’t even a particularly special image, it’s how amethyst looks like most of the time. What is it about this mine...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/geopicture-amethyst0/
This image shows, in false color, the region around Gale Crater on Mars. It was taken by the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft – but we just call it Odyssey. Odyssey has been orbiting the Red Pla...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/great-pics/geopicture-odyssey-mars/
It’s absolutely baffling that we’ve reached a level where we can not only study the geology of the Earth, but also that of other bodies in the solar system – in this case, the Moon. This is...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/geopicture-of-the-week-the-moons-geology/
The photo was taken with NASA’s Landat 8 satellite. Landsat is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth, with the first one being launched in 1972. Since...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/patagonia-ice-fields/
The picture was taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS), focusing on two snow-covered volcanoes in Russia’s Far East. The volcano in the center of the image is ca...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/geopicture-snow-volcano-russia/
The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular – perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it’s really hard to study… you know, being on the ocean floor and all. But technici...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/geopicture-of-the-week-the-atlantic-ocean-floor/
Crinoids are marine animal (not plants) that have been around since the late Cambrian, some 500 million years ago. Crinoids usually have a stem used to attach themselves to a substrate, but many...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/geopicture-crinoid-fossil/
It’s a new year alright, and what better way to start it than with a GeoPicture? This is the Xico volcanic crater in Mexico. Located in the southern parts of of Mexico City in the municipality...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/geopicture-of-the-week-xico-crater-in-mexico/
This mineral looks so delicious, I could gobble it up like candy!
Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is a mineral consisting of calcium fluoride, CaF2. It belongs to the halide minerals, alongside common salt (called halite in its mineral form). Halide minerals c...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/geopicture-fluorite/
These are perfectly cubical salt crystals, spotted at Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, located in Bolivia. Each crystal belongs to a specific crystal system – for salt it’s t...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/cubic-salt-crystal/
This is a polished marble of a pallasite – a type of stony-iron meteorite, consisting mostly of centimeter-sized olivine crystals. Olivine is a silicate mineral often found in the Earth’s ma...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/pallasite-geopicture/
The Astro-geology team working on analyzing the photos from Curiosity Rover is having a busy week. They recently posted this amazing picture and announced their plans for the future. The plan for...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/geopicture-of-the-week-martian-chronicles/
NASA recently uploaded a strikingly beautiful photograph on their website showing a petrified sand dune on Mars. The image was actually pieced together from several shots taken using Curiosity's ...
https://www.zmescience.com/science/geology/nasa-picture-martian-dunes-82738423/
Today's Spain was close to Greenland, Tibet and Australia were neighbors, and Africa and South America were closely hugging - as can be roughly seen from today's coastline. This image shows that ...
https://www.zmescience.com/other/geopicture/geopicture-pangaea/