Geology
This unifying theory of geology explains continental drift.
What is Plate Tectonics
These dark spots appear on the sun's surface.
What are sunspots?
These features of a rock or a planet provide evidence of life or past life.
What is a biosignature?
This is the entire area drained by a river.
What is a watershed?
The James Webb Space Telescope has a primary mirror that is roughly this diameter (in meters or feet).
What is 6.5 meters or 21 feet.
These regions of crust are where new oceanic crust is created.
What is a spreading ridge?
Located 2.5 million light-years away, this "nearby" galaxy is the closest major galaxy to our Milky Way, and is expected to collide with us in 4.5 billion years.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy (or M31)?
This planet had a warm and wet history and may have had life early in its history.
What is Mars?
These regions of land around the equator consume lots of CO2.
What are tropical rain forests?
This type of small satellite is based on 10x10x10 cm3 units.
What is a CubeSat?
This object is estimated to be about 4.5 billion years old.
What is the Earth?
What is Mercury?
This is the orbital range around a star within which a planetary surface can support liquid water.
What is the habitable zone?
This process is resulting in both increased drought increased flooding from large slow-moving storms.
What is climate change?
As part of Apollo 11, this man was the second person to walk on the moon in 1969.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
These areas are where oceanic crust is recycled.
What is a subduction zone?
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the astrophysical observation of these particles.
What are neutrinos?
This equation is used to evaluate the probability of civilized life in our galaxy.
What is the Drake Equation?
This atmospheric problem was solved by a global ban on chloro-fluorocarbons.
What is the Ozone Hole?
This mission to the moon has an ASU camera on board.
What is the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter?
This part of the inner Earth is liquid.
What is the outer core?
This relic of the Big Bang gives us a view of the early Universe.
What is the Cosmic Microwave Background?
This compound, which was recently found in the atmosphere of Venus, may be evidence of life the Venusian atmosphere.
What is phosphine?
This method of extracting petroleum used high-pressure fluid to open fractures in rock.
What is Fracking?
Who is Sally Ride?