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Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge for granted, this theory of plate tectonics was only formulated in the ...

Provides a consistently updated, searchable, central point of access to the superset of NASA's Earth science-related images, animations, and data visualizations. The images relate to the biosphere, ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, my colleagues and I have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years. It is the first time Earth’s ...