- Which line of latitude divides the land-surface area of Earth into equal parts? http://xkcd.com/753/ 28 comments askscience
- The August temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.66°F above the 20th century average of 60.1°F. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/global/201608 5 comments worldnews
- Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometres away to get warmer, according to a new study. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1006010 12 comments science
- On Saturday, India could become the fourth country ever to land on the lunar surface. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/world/asia/chandrayaan-moon-landing-india.html?smid=spacecal 94 comments space
- Land Surface Warming Confirmed Independently Without Land Station Data http://www.skepticalscience.com/surface-temp-record-accuracy-confirmed-compo.html 6 comments science
- India's historic landing on moon's polar surface may have failed https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/06/india/india-moon-lunar-landing-chandrayaan-2-scn/index.html 13 comments space
- Rosetta (the orbiter) to Land on Comet's Surface After Extended Mission http://www.space.com/29748-rosetta-comet-probe-extended-mission.html?cmpid=514630_20150624_48109206&adbid=10152904789096466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465 6 comments space
- First Image shot while sitting on the surface of a Comet. Philae has landed! http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/images/2014/11/welcome_to_a_comet 7 comments science
- Indian Probe Lands on Moon's Surface Successfully! http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16043-indian-probe-lands-on-moons-surface.html 120 comments science
- Costa Rica Doubled Its Forest Cover In Just 30 Years: ‘After decades of deforestation, Costa Rica has reforested to the point that half of the country’s land surface is covered with trees again.’ https://www.intelligentliving.co/costa-rica-forest-cover/ 666 comments worldnews
- China lands probe on surface of the moon and collects lunar soil https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/01/asia/china-moon-change-5-landing-scn/index.html 7 comments worldnews
- Study predicts that aridification would emerge over about 20% to 30% of the world’s land surface by the time the global mean temperature change reaches 2ºC https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/study-predicts-a-significantly-drier-world-at-2-c 4 comments science
- How would inserting a floating balloon into the atmosphere of a planet from space be technically different from landing a craft on the rocky surface of a planet from space? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/78a0a4/how_would_inserting_a_floating_balloon_into_the/ 5 comments askscience
- NASA opens discussion on where humans could land, live, and work on the martian surface http://anemoia.com/blog/2015/10/28/nasa-opens-discussion-on-where-to-land-humans-on-mars/ 26 comments space
- The Rosetta spacecraft is about to do something no spacecraft has ever done before: orbit a comet and land on its surface. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/03jun_rosetta/ 364 comments space
- India announces it will land on the moon in SEPTEMBER to become the fourth nation to successfully land on the lunar surface https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6984189/india-announces-land-moon-september.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 58 comments worldnews
- In less than 2 hours, Israel will attempt to land the first privately funded lunar lander on the surface of the Moon. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/04/israeli-beresheet-mission-will-attempt-to-land-on-the-moon-today 216 comments worldnews
- NASA’s Mars InSight Mission Lands on Red Planet’s Surface https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/science/nasa-insight-mars-landing.html 16 comments europe
- Joseph G. Gavin Jr., who rode herd over the immensely complex design, construction and testing of the first vehicle to visit the moon — a task that included anticipating 400 different landing surfaces, from ice to boulders to dust to potholes — died on Saturday in Amherst, Mass. He was 90 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/business/04gavin.html?ref=space 10 comments space
- If the salt in the sea could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth's land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick. Where does al that salt come from? http://www.palomar.edu/oceanography/salty_ocean.htm 12 comments science
- The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperatures in European cities. Areas in European cities with trees are approximately 2–4 times cooler than urban green spaces without trees, according to a study published in Nature Communications. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26768-w?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_NRJournals 9 comments science
- NEW: First image released of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover landing on the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021. https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/lnmg24/new_first_image_released_of_nasas_perseverance/ 223 comments space
- Japan’s space agency is delaying a Hayabusa2 touchdown on an asteroid Ryugu because scientists need more time to find a safe landing site on the extremely rocky surface. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-delays-spacecraft-landing-on-very-rocky-asteroid/2018/10/12/f6de8770-ce10-11e8-ad0a-0e01efba3cc1_story.html? 4 comments space
- German satellites sense Earth's lumps and bumps. The German space agency releases a spectacular 3D map of the Earth's land surfaces. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45815399 3 comments technology
- FIFA investigates new report saying Germany bought votes in 2006 World Cup | German football was thrown into crisis with reports surfacing that officials had used bribes to land the 2006 World Cup. World football governing body FIFA said it would launch its own investigation. http://www.dw.com/en/fifa-investigates-new-report-saying-germany-bought-votes-in-2006-world-cup/a-18788124 7 comments worldnews
- A bouncing space cube from Germany is about to leave on a first-of-its-kind mission: to land on an asteroid and examine the surface at multiple spots on the cosmic rock http://www.dw.de/after-philaes-comet-landing-germanys-mascot-lander-heads-for-an-asteroid/a-18106196 4 comments europe
- State Of The Climate - March 2010 - # The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for March 2010 was the warmest on record - This was also the 34th consecutive March with global land and ocean temperatures above the 20th century average. http://www.antemedius.com/content/state-climate-march-2010 11 comments science
- The Burj Al Arab is just 65 m shorter than the Empire State Building in New York. It is home to the world’s highest tennis court. It’s set at 211 m high on hotel’s helipad, which can also become a heliport for emergency landings or guest traffic and covers a surface area of 415 sq. http://marko-garfild.blogspot.com/2009/09/burj-al-arab-is-just-65-m-shorter-than.html 8 comments reddit.com
- A US spacecraft has captured images of Apollo landing sites on the Moon, revealing hardware and a trail of footprints left on the lunar surface http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8157368.stm 221 comments science
- Asteroid NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission landed on had a surface like a ‘pit of plastic balls’ https://www.engadget.com/nasa-osiris-rex-bennu-finding-plastic-ball-pit-184718806.html 11 comments space
- Groundwater resources in Africa resilient to climate change, according to a study led by Cardiff University. It shows that in humid areas groundwater is replenished primarily by rainfall that directly infiltrates land surface, whereas in drylands it occurs by leakage from temporary streams & ponds. https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/1547774-groundwater-resources-in-africa-resilient-to-climate-change?utm_source=miragenews&utm_medium=miragenews&utm_campaign=news 3 comments science
- Nasa has outlined more details of its plans for a landing craft that will take humans to the lunar surface, which call for an initial version of the lander to be built for landing on the Moon by 2024. The news comes as work was completed on the Orion spacecraft that will fly around the Moon in 2021. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49084696 6 comments space
- The world’s first “biosolar leaf”, which scientists claim can mop up carbon dioxide and discharge oxygen into the atmosphere, doing the work of 100 trees using the surface area of one tree. It cultivates microalgae and phytoplankton on solar panel structures to be installed on land and roofs. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/28/biosolar-leaf-project-targets-air-pollution-on-london-campus 473 comments worldnews
- NASA’s InSight lander has detected the first known ‘marsquake’. The spacecraft picked up the faint trembling of Mars’s surface on 6 April, 128 days after landing on the planet last November. The quake is the first to be detected on a planetary body other than Earth or Moon. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01330-3 5 comments science
- In Search of Life’s Origins, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 Spacecraft Lands on an Asteroid — Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has successfully landed on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, a historic moment in space exploration that could provide fascinating details on the origins of life on Earth. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-search-of-lifes-origins-japans-hayabusa-2-spacecraft-lands-on-an-asteroid/ 33 comments worldnews
- Harvard University researchers find that the transition to wind or solar power in the U.S. would require five to 20 times more land than previously thought, and, if such large-scale wind farms were built, would warm average surface temperatures over the continental U.S. by 0.24 degrees Celsius. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/large-scale-wind-power-has-its-down-side/ 15 comments science
- U.S. Navy Announces 26th Rim of the Pacific Exercise. Twenty-six nations, 47 surface ships, five submarines, 18 national land forces, and more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel will participate in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=105789&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=100000261289451 3 comments worldnews
- The world lost a South Africa-sized area of forest since 1990, says the U.N.: the world’s forested area declined from 31.6 to 30.6 percent of the Earth’s land surface. This represented a loss of 129 million hectares of forest — equivalent to nearly 500,000 square miles. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/08/the-world-lost-a-south-africa-sized-area-of-forest-since-1990-says-the-u-n/ 4 comments worldnews
- Microsoft’s Power Cover Debuts As Rumors Of The LTE-Powered Surface 2 Landing In Stores Abound http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/10/microsofts-power-cover-debuts-as-rumors-of-the-lte-powered-surface-2-landing-in-stores-abound/ 3 comments microsoft
- Google has offered a $20m grand prize to the first privately-funded company to land a robot on the moon and explore the surface by moving at least 500 metres and send high definition video back to Earth by 2015. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21682457 1777 comments technology