Fascinating Photos And Discoveries (33 pics)
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- 21 Apr, 2023 |
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On June 10, 2018, NASA officially had to say goodbye to the little rover that could. The Mars Opportunity Rover was meant to last just 90 days and instead marched on for 14 years. It finally lost contact with earth after it was hit by a fierce dust storm.
In 1972, astronaut Charles Duke left behind a picture of his family on the moon's surface. It's been there ever since:
The back of the photo reads "This is the family of Astronaut Duke from Planet Earth, who landed on the Moon on the twentieth of April 1972."
This is what salt looks like under an electron microscope:
This is what Chile looks like compared to Europe:
This is what Netflix's homepage looked like in 1999, one year after launch:
This is how big a moose is compared to a van:
This is what a gym looked like two centuries ago in 1831:
Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar system, the 72,000 foot tall Olympus Mons:
It's over 372 miles wide. That's bigger than Arizona.
Here's a computer illustration of what Olympus Mons looks like from space:
This is the iconic log cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809:
This would sell for $19 million in Lake Tahoe today.
Easter bunnies were absolutely horrifying in the 1950s:
This picture from 1957 will forever haunt my dreams.
Fingers with nerve damage won't prune:
This is the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest plane in the world:
Last week I shared some new photos NASA's James Webb Space Telescope took of Uranus. Here's another new picture, this time of Neptune:
This is what a medieval toilet looked like on the inside of a castle...
... and this is what it looked like on the outside:
This is a picture of a lifeboat filled with Titanic survivors being rescued and brought aboard the Carpathia following the sinking of the ship:
This is what a kidney stone looks like under an electron microscope:
In the '60s you could buy a mail-order squirrel monkey for $18.95:
This is all the excess glass dust that gets created at a factory that makes glass windshields for cars:
This is what a slice of meteorite looks like:
This is what a soda bottle looks like before it's inflated and filled with liquid:
This is Jack the baboon, a South African baboon who worked as a signalman at a railway station in the 1800s. During his almost decade of railway work, Jack never made a single mistake:
He was paid "20 cents a day and half a bottle of beer weekly." RIP Jack.
A device that forces people to pay their parking tickets by covering their windshield
Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper
The Bath Mouthpiece that allows you to breath during a house/hotel fire if you can’t leave the room
In 2009 while watching Stewart Little (1999), Hungarian art historian Gergely Barki, saw the painting "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" by Róbert Berény. It had been missing for 90 years and had been used as a prop. It was the original.
Bioplastics made from avocado pits that completely biodegrade in 240 days created by Mexican chemical engineering company
This is not a disk, but actually, a sphere coated in Vantablack, one of the darkest pigments created
This pharmacy in Lisbon, Portugal is older than the USA
In Hangzhou, China, there is a building that houses over 30,000 people.
Lab grown diamonds, before they are cut and polished
Workers building a mountain road in China
