Setting: Character gets put into an escape pod and sent somewhere (she doesn't know the location). She lands on a planet where it's frigid and icy and there's sand like a desert everywhere. There's no snow. I suppose there's not enough moisture in the atmosphere to be snow?

Question(s): 1) is it even possible to be below freezing but not even snow?
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Hi, I'm interested in the layout of the Thomas A. Jaggar Museum and the adjoining US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO)on the Big Island of Hawai'i ( Read more... )

Setting: modern day, Australia [though the carving was made in the early Miocene, about 20 million years ago ( Read more... )

 Time frame: not determined ( Read more... )

Google terms: undersea mining, massive sulfides, talus+samples, ore, zinc ore ( Read more... )

Setting: Montana, in the last few days before impact, on the north-western side of a line of hills ( Read more... )

Some questions for the geographers on this comm. I did some googling on fault lines and cliffs and such, but as this is a "is my geography feasible" question, it's not entirely researchable--hence my presence here ( Read more... )

I'm looking for information about what the land itself would be like in and around Mesopotamia in prehistoric times. The period isn't that important, just as long as it's pre-man - say Triassic period or before ( Read more... )

I have no idea how to go about Googling this one. I've spent an hour or so on Google Maps before giving up in frustration ( Read more... )

 I have a group of mediaeval humans travelling back in time to the Permian, Cretaceous and Miocene. They spend several weeks in each, and I want them to remain healthy. Food plants would not be a problem for them in the latter two but I’m at a loss to know what to give them to eat during the Permian, except for ferns; and I could stretch a point ( Read more... )