Barring cloud cover, about 75% of the country saw the total lunar eclipse, aka the “Blood Worm Moon.” Texas had good weather conditions for last night’s display, as did the lower Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, and a portion of the Central Plains.

Two recent studies by different groups have concluded essentially the same thing: there are mysterious cold rock slabs at the bottom of Earth’s mantle that cannot be explained by conventional theories.^1,2 Geophysicists typically color these colder rocks blue, as shown in the image.