Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2026
The basin is a long-standing industrial hub that grew around the 1951 discovery of a large, high-pressure sour natural gas field in southwestern France.
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Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
13 Feb. 2026
There’s still ice the coyotes use, especially if there’s heavy snow cover inland, but what looks like seemingly endless ice cover one day will turn into an expanse of blue water once the wind changes.
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David Zeug,
Outdoor Life,
4 Feb. 2026
The hotel sits on a point and is almost entirely surround by calm, gin-bottle blue water.
In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around 13,000 years ago.
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Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
Scientists have eyes on these depths for only a small fraction of the year.
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