Earthly Musings - My Travel and Geology Blog

  McDonald Observatory On rare summer nights, ethereal forms leap into the skies above distant thunderstorms. Alien invaders? Not quite: it...

The Mars rover, Curiosity, has been roaming the Gale Crater for 8 years - it was only supposed to be operating for 2 years. This ten minu...

From left to right, Hugh Downs, Ruth Downs, Herbergers, and Buzz Aldrin. You may have heard that Hugh Downs, longtime TV personality at NBC ...

My colleague, Brad Dimock , sent along a link recently that I know you will find interesting. It involves a cartoon graphic that shows t...

Palisades of the Desert from the Colorado River, September 17, 2013 I think everyone will agree it has been a difficult few months. Whil...

Photomural image by Richard Gordon Bowen, May 18, 1980. Courtesy of the Bowen Family. May 18, 1980. If most people remember this date at...

Photo by Dawn Kish - From the top of the Rattlesnake scoria cone ; the reddish arc behind the figure is Rattlesnake maar An unusual and ...

The next destination in the series,  "We Are Cratering in Northern Arizona"  is Moon Crater. This volcanic center is labeled as Cr...

Winter photo of SP Crater, the 4th youngest cone and crater in the San Francisco Volcanic Field. It has recently been re-re-dated at about...

I have had the pleasure of traveling with  many readers of this blog on geologic adventures across the globe, from Arizona to Zimbabwe, fr...