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Atlas of Curiosity

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Nature

Organisms, ecosystems and geological processes that behave in ways that still surprise the people who study them.

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Nature

What the Blue Hole Remembers

A near-perfect circle of deep water off Belize's coast is really a drowned cave system — and its floor holds a layered record of the planet's last four ice ages.

BelizeCave system formed across multiple ice ages, flooded roughly 10,000–15,000 years ago7 min read

Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory, using EO-1 ALI data courtesy of the NASA EO-1 Team; caption by Michon ScottNASA image — NASA Earth Observatory content is produced under NASA's standard open, public-domain-style media usage policy for Earth science imagery