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What would Antarctica look like if all its ice melted

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Have you ever wondered what would Antarctica look like if all its ice melted? This may seem extraordinary and unlikely, but, this has actually happened in the past. In fact, there have been no major ice sheets over the South Pole for most of the Earth’s history.

In the video below, NASA Goddard strip away Antarctic ice to reveal a new, and much more detailed map of the bedrock below. This map, called Bedmap2, was compiled by the British Antarctic Survey and incorporates millions of new measurements, including substantial data sets from NASA’s ICESat satellite and an airborne mission called Operation IceBridge.
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Mountains, Videos

Mont Blanc – 365 Gigapixel Panorama (World’s Largest Photo)

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An international team led by the Italian photographer Filippo Blengini created a 365-Gigapixel Panorama of Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest mountain, and the gigantic image becomes the World’s largest photoSee Note. The previous record-holder, published in 2013, was a 320-gigapixel shot of London, taken from atop the BT Tower.
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Climate, Life on Earth, Prehistoric

Dinosaur-killer asteroid hit “worst possible place”, say Scientists

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According to the scientists who drilled into the Chicxulub crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico, the asteroid hit the “worst possible place”. They summarized their findings so far in a BBC Two documentary titled “The Day The Dinosaurs Died“. The documentary presented by professors Alice Roberts and Ben Garod.
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Climate, Places, Videos

Daily Life in the Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth – Amazing Video

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Oymyakon, a village in Oymyakonsky Ulus of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), the Russian Federation, is considered as the coldest inhabited place on Earth. On February 6, 1933, a temperature of −67.7 °C (−90 °F) was recorded at Oymyakon’s weather station. The village is considered as one of the Pole of Colds[1] of the northern hemisphere.

And Yakutsk, the capital city of the Sakha Republic, is the coldest major city in the world. The city is located about 450 kilometers (280 mi) south of the Arctic Circle which has a population of 269,601 (2010 Census). In Yakutsk, average monthly temperatures range from +19.5 °C (67.1 °F) in July to −38.6 °C (−37.5 °F) in January. The lowest temperature recorded in Yakutsk was −64.4 °C (−83.9 °F) and the highest was +38.4 °C (101.1 °F).

But, what is it like to live in these places? Unfortunately, there is serious lack of media coverage on these amazing places, Yakutsk and Oymyakon. Luckily for us, Sebastian Balders, who describes himself as “Extreme Cold Chaser” published an amazing video shot in Yakutsk, Oymyakon and around in the coldest days of winter.

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Astronomy, Videos

Earth Between the Rings of Saturn

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A beautiful image published by NASA, taken by the unmanned Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, shows the Earth between the rings of Saturn. The image is taken on April 12, 2017.

“Consider again that dot [Earth]. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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Astronomy, Videos

Lights of Human Activity (Earth from Space at Night)

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The first new global map of Earth from space at night since 2012 has been released by the NASA scientists. The nighttime look of our planet is dubbed the “Black Marble”. But why?

On December 7, 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon took a photo of Earth from the space, at a distance about 45,000 kilometers (28,000 miles). This image, with the official NASA designation AS17-148-22727, became known as “The Blue Marble”.
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