Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed up to 100,000 people From lava fountains to towering ash clouds, volcanoes produce some of the most dramatic geological events on the planet. Volcanoes are cracks in Earth's crust that allow molten rock ...
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the highest in the world. The main political division reflects differing views on the importance of free-market forces; but the socialists long ago stopped insisting on nationalization of the country’s industry, and the nonsocialists have accepted extensive governmental control of the country’s ...
NASA's two stuck astronauts are finally closing in on their return to Earth after 9 months in space•Mar. 4, 2025, 5:14 PM ET (AP) Earth, thirdplanetfrom theSunand the fifth largest planet in thesolar systemin terms of size and mass. Its single most outstanding feature is that its...
Europe, second smallest of the world’scontinents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas ofEurasia(the great landmass that it shares withAsia) and occupying nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area. It is bordered on the north by theArctic Ocean, on the west by theAtlant...
Australia is the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Its capital city is Canberra, and its most important economic and cultural centers are Sydney and Melbo
submarine ridges. The third major unit of the Earth’s crust in Indonesia is an extension of the belt of mountains that formsJapanand thePhilippines; the mountains run southward between Borneo and New Guinea and include a series ofvolcanoesand deep-sea trenches on and around Celebes and the ...
Africa is the second largest continent, covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth. Africa’s total land area is approximately 11,724,000 square miles (30,365,000 square km), and the continent measures about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from n
(1,516 miles), Mercury is the smallest major planet, smaller even thanJupiter’slargestmoon,Ganymede, orSaturn’slargest moon,Titan. In addition, Mercury is unusuallydense. Although its meandensityis roughly that of Earth’s, it has less mass and so is less compressed by its own gravity; ...
Sweden occupies the greater part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, which it shares withNorway. The land slopes gently from the high mountains along the Norwegian frontier eastward to the Baltic Sea. Geologically, it is one of the oldest and most stable parts of the Earth’s crust. Its surface fo...