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Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four spheres: the biosphere, hydrosphere/cryosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere (or lithosphere). Earth science can be considered to be a branch of planetary science but with a much older history. (Full article...)
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- ... that the Iowa Colored Cowboys played softball for audiences of over a thousand people, in an atmosphere similar to a Harlem Globetrotters show?
- ... that Frederick Murray Trotter had a distinguished career as a field geologist despite losing a part of his skull and an eye to shrapnel during World War I?
- ... that the Danish geologist Tove Birkelund received a gold medal for her early work on fossils of Scaphites in Greenland?
- ... that geologist Gilbert Wilson was the fifth Wilson at school, so he was known as "Quintus"?
- ... that life exists in every part of the biosphere, from the deepest parts of the ocean to altitudes of up to 64 km (40 miles) in the atmosphere?
- ... that Kenshi Yonezu's song "Dune" describes his perception of a "desert-like atmosphere" on the video-sharing website Niconico?
- ... that the Apollo 12 Solar Wind Spectrometer detected a gas-ion shockwave produced by the impact of the Apollo 13 S-IVB stage on the lunar surface?
- ... that the geology of the Ellsworth Mountains was explored by geologists using motor toboggans in 1961?
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- ...that nearly 10 years before the 2008 Atlanta Tornado, the Dunwoody Tornado (pictured) caused significant damage just outside the city limits?
- ...that the Lorain-Sandusky tornado was both the deadliest tornado and part of the deadliest tornado outbreak in Ohio history?
- ...that Cyclone Gamede in February 2007 was among the wettest tropical cyclones on record, dropping more than 5.5 m (18 ft) in a nine day period on Réunion island?
- ...that in Madagascar and Mozambique, Cyclone Jokwe killed 16 people, left at least 55400 homeless, and destroyed nearly 10000 houses?
- ...that following the Cambrian explosion, about 535 mya, there have been five mass extinctions?
- ... that geophysical methods have been used to look for the palace of Cleopatra?
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