What looks permanent is always changing. From the tectonic scars of the Andes to the retreating ice of the North, SOLAST preserves fragile landscapes and reveals the motion hidden beneath the surface. More than a map, it is a living record of change across the planet and deep within it.
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SOLAST / PLANETARY MEMORY ARCHIVE
MISSION DIRECTIVE
Time creates, but now it erases faster than ever. Glaciers retreat, ecosystems vanish, and geological giants turn to dust. The mission is not merely to document, but to immortalize these states before they change irreversibly. A sanctuary for the Earth’s memory, preserved in code for future generations.
RECONSTRUCTION LAYER
Raw satellite topography is processed to reveal what the naked eye misses. By reconstructing the terrain in 3D, the deep history written in rock is exposed: the flow of ancient glaciers, the violence of tectonic shifts, and the intricate texture of erosion. A high-precision snapshot of geological time.
REMOTE PRESENCE
True preservation requires a delicate paradox: to love the world, we must witness it; yet our presence often destroys it. This archive offers a solution to solastalgia, the grief of a vanishing home. A virtual alternative to physical intrusion, allowing deep exploration without disturbance. Witness the fragile without breaking it.
LIVE GEOSYSTEM
Earth moves to more than one clock. Explore an interactive tectonic plates map of 52 major and minor plates, their boundaries, and the processes where they meet. Most shift only a few centimeters each year; earthquakes arrive in seconds, when stressed rock breaks and slips. Switch between plate boundaries and recent earthquakes to see the slow architecture of the planet beside its sudden release. Open an event, and its numbers become clues.
Reported depth marks the estimated depth at which an earthquake began, placing events in shallow, intermediate, or deep ranges. Magnitude describes the reported overall size of the earthquake on a logarithmic scale: a small numerical step can represent a much larger change in seismic-wave energy. The magnitude comparison makes that jump visible, while shaking intensity can still vary from place to place with depth, distance, fault behavior, and local ground. Together, these layers turn a dot on the map into a glimpse of Earth in motion.
AUTOMATED INTERPRETATION / BETA
Earth Pulse turns selected USGS earthquake records into short, plain-language explanations of what their reported magnitude, depth, location, shaking, or other products can support. An automated writing and evidence-checking pipeline works from captured evidence and explicit scientific boundaries; it does not invent unsupported causes, predict future activity, or replace a seismologist. See how Earth Pulse interprets earthquake records
PUBLISHED STORY ARCHIVE / BETA
Story Atlas preserves published Earth Pulse explanations. Each story focuses on one bounded question that the available evidence can support. Browse them across time and place, filter by date, magnitude, story type, or location, and compare each explanation with its original USGS event and regional map. Explore the Story Atlas
