by Audrey Benedict | Aug 22, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #133: Glass in Nature (Part 8) Photo Credit: Popigai diamonds courtesy of The Siberian Times (siberiantimes.com). DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH Throughout its history, Earth has been repeatedly hit by large meteorites. Of the more than 60,000 meteorites that have...
by Audrey Benedict | Aug 15, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #132: Glass in Nature (Part 7) Illustration Credit: Courtesy of the Deccan Herald and Detlev van Ravenswaay/science source. https://www.deccanherald.com/content/549533/learning-impact-changed-life-earth.html This illustration is an artist’s rendering of the...
by Audrey Benedict | Aug 1, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #131: Glass in Nature (Part 6) Photo Credits: Artist’s conception of meteorite courtesy of researchers from Tohoku University, Hokkaido University, JAMSTEC, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. A research team from Japan and the USA investigated carbon-rich...
by Audrey Benedict | Jul 25, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #130: Glass in Nature (Part 5) Photo Credit: Courtesy of NASA’s Antarctic Search for Meteorites program and Daniel Glavin. NASA Goddard astrobiologist Daniel Glavin poses in 2002 next to a meteorite he had just found during an expedition in Antarctica....
by Audrey Benedict | Jul 18, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #129: Glass in Nature (Part 4) Photo Credit: Courtesy of Kelly Carroll and White Sands National Park (NPS). This stunning photo of the Milky Way over the dunes of White Sands National Park was part of an invitation to join park rangers in August 2021 to...
