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Take a winter road trip from Iceland’s second city, Akureyri, through a northern peninsula framed by fjords and punctuated by ...

Take a winter road trip from Iceland’s second city, Akureyri, through a northern peninsula framed by fjords and punctuated by ...

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of ...

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A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

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A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth. In the journal Matter and Radiation at Extremes, by AIP ...