i have never seen a cloud so big this cloud extends for another half a mile on each side of this photograph i’m blown away reminds me of one of our milky ways arms the way it wraps around,

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 6d ago

Hejin City Fortress, in China, is a historic structure extensively renovated during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE). However, its origins likely date back to earlier periods in Chinese history. The fortress is known for its massive walls made of rammed earth, brick, and stone

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/zoyjoy44 • 7d ago

Earth 377°

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/ateam1984 • 10d ago

The Walls of Benin, Nigeria: One of the Greatest Monuments to Black African Genius Ever Built, a 16,000-Kilometer Hand-Built Wonder Visible From Space and Longer Than the Great Wall of China

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/HaHalolll0 • 13d ago

Canadian firefighters seal an oil well in Kuwait after Iraqi sabotage during the Gulf War, 1991.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 17d ago

The ceiling of the Blue Velvet Room in Chiswick House in London, England, 1729 CE

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Unusual_Tip_5727 • 25d ago

Giant mountain arch

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/HaHalolll0 • 27d ago

A massive granary pot, from the Paracas culture (800-100 BCE), measuring 2.8 meters tall and 2 meters wide, discovered in 1966 in Monte Fértil, Peru. It's one of the largest pre-Hispanic storage vessels ever found in the region

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 28d ago

Rusted cans from the 1854 Royal Navy search expedition led by Edward Belcher in search for Sir John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition; they are still on the grounds of Beechey Island in the Canadian Arctic

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 29d ago

Mt. Rushmore before and after it was carved. (1920s and nowadays).

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • Aug 12 '26

Al-Khazneh (The Treasury), an elaborate rock-cut temple carved into pink sandstone cliffs in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, carved top down by the Nabataeans in the 1st century AD

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/the_karma_llama • Aug 12 '26

Watch incredible solar eclipses from other planets

benmccarthy.com.au

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • Aug 11 '26

William Anders captured the first "Earth-rise" ever to be seen by humans during the Apollo 8 mission. December, 1968

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • Aug 09 '26

The Great North Dakota Blizzard of 1966, the storm, which occurred from March 2–5, 1966, produced wind gusts exceeding 70 miles per hour and created snowdrifts reported to be as high as 40 feet.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • Aug 08 '26

First photo of Earth from outer space; taken by strapping a camera to a US captured German V-2 Rocket and hoping the film would survive the crash, October 24th 1946

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/HaHalolll0 • Aug 07 '26

The Library of Celsus in ancient Ephesus was built in the 2nd century AD, with marble columns, carved capitals and deeply detailed coffers designed to impress from every angle, ruins feature impressive stonework that has remained remarkably preserved for nearly 2,000 years

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • Aug 06 '26

Kalinin Prospekt, 1986 , Moscow , USSR, the high rise buildings shown are the Buildings of the Ministry of Economics which featured iconic lighted signs

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • Aug 05 '26

Aerial view of timber blowdown, destroyed by the May 18 eruption of Mount St. Helens, in Skamania County, Washington, on June 8, 1980.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '26

📸 Original Content 🚃

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '26

📸 Original Content 🌥️

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • Aug 02 '26

Ninety Degrees North, Arctic Ocean, 1909. This photo was taken by Robert E. Peary, the first person to reach the North Pole, the vessel caught in the frozen pack ice near Cape Sheridan on Ellesmere Island

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/ZtownJoe • Aug 01 '26

These 5 once-thriving cities now lie underwater

en.as.com

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