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Russian Soldiers Induce Avalanche Using Artillery [Video]

Watch as Russian soliders shoot artillery into some snowy mountains in North Ossetia not for target practice, but to prevent avalanches by creating a controlled one. Even though it’s “controlled,” the way they laugh as the avalanche tumbles over them and the camera at around 1:15 into the video is still a little disconcerting.

(via Daily Picks and Flicks)

A Living Planet: Avalanches on Mars

We usually think of the other planets in our solar system as relatively peaceful, unchanging. It’s sort of a “tree falls in the forest” situation. If there’s no life, how active can they really be? The storm on Jupiter is a swirling maelstrom, sure, but it’s a swirling maelstrom that’s been around for over two hundred years.

And yet… spring is approaching the northern hemisphere of Mars, thawing the carbon dioxide ice that’s built up along cliff faces. And when you get thawing ice on cliff faces, you also get…

Avalanches.

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