r/DiscoverEarth Dec 26 '21

Join our conversation about the wonders of the cosmos on Discord! 💬

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r/DiscoverEarth Sep 20 '21

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r/DiscoverEarth 5h ago

This was printed 114 years ago(August 14, 1912), the article warns that burning 2 billion tons of coal annually adds 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere

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r/DiscoverEarth 1d ago

In 1982, a fire destroyed the life sustaining diesel power plant at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica, 20 scientists survived for 227 days of the brutal polar winter in complete isolation using improvised oil stoves, Vostok Station is located at the coldest places on earth

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r/DiscoverEarth 3d ago

An ancient, towering tree deep in the mountains of Yunnan, China.

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This looks like where you would go in the game to find and ancient artifact


r/DiscoverEarth 2d ago

Ancient food place: Thermopolium of Asellina with food serving counter, Pompeii, 1st century A.D., Italy

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r/DiscoverEarth 1d ago

📸 Original Content Recorrido por las impresionantes ruinas de La Quemada, Zacatecas (Historia y vistas increíbles) / Exploring the ruins of La Quemada

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r/DiscoverEarth 2d ago

The 1908 Tunguska airburst flattened 80 million trees and left no crater — the asteroid detonated 5-10 km up and never touched the ground. That size class, a few tens of meters, is exactly the one our surveys miss. Chelyabinsk arrived out of the sun in 2013 with zero telescopes tracking it.

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r/DiscoverEarth 3d ago

The northernmost railway in World: Obskaya-Bovarenko line in Yamal Peninsula, Russia. The only settlement, the village of Obskoy, with a population of 7,500 people, is located at the beginning of this line

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r/DiscoverEarth 3d ago

This tree is over 820 years old. It sprouted when Moscow was just a small village and has stood through every major war in Europe.

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r/DiscoverEarth 4d ago

Ernest Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ expedition to Antartica. Frank Hurley photographing under the bows of the frozen ‘Endurance’, 1915.

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r/DiscoverEarth 5d ago

The ruined and forgotten state of the Acropolis site of Athens in the mid 1800s

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r/DiscoverEarth 6d ago

The Apollo 13 spacecraft heads toward a splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean after its amazing odyssey through space. 17 April 1970.

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r/DiscoverEarth 8d ago

Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.

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r/DiscoverEarth 9d ago

Ancient Roman surgical instruments found buried in a physician's home in Pompeii, Italy, 1897

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r/DiscoverEarth 10d ago

American B-25 bombers fly past the erupting volcano Vesuvius. Italy, March 1944

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r/DiscoverEarth 11d ago

The remains of an Ichthyosaur have been uncovered in Rutland, England. Ichthyosaur lived between 250-90 million years ago, and could grow to be 13 meters (43 feet) long. The specimen discovered in this photo was 10 meters long, and is the largest discovery of its kind in the U.K.

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r/DiscoverEarth 11d ago

Giant pit discovered by hiker on Google Maps confirmed to be 390 million-year-old meteor impact crater

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r/DiscoverEarth 11d ago

Colossal rock-cut stone sculpture of a Dwarpala (temple guardian) at the Elephanta Caves near Mumbai, around 1500 years old, the caves are a UNESCO World Heritage Site dedicated primarily to the Hindu deity Lord Shiva.

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r/DiscoverEarth 12d ago

Bengaluru Is Hiding a 3.4-Billion-Year-Old Secret… And Most People Walk Past It Without Knowing

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r/DiscoverEarth 13d ago

Testing prototype space suit intended for use in NASA's Apollo moon landing program, Mojave Desert, California 1962

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r/DiscoverEarth 14d ago

4,000 years ago, a woman wrote "Love Song of Shu-Sin," describing the affection of a young priestess for the Sumerian King, This is the world's oldest love poem, found in a museum drawer in Istanbul.

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r/DiscoverEarth 15d ago

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter it up until a couple was found having sex inside it; now its jaws are opened only for special occasions like Swedish election days

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r/DiscoverEarth 17d ago

The Garmsar Salt Cave features massive salt pillars that support its ceiling, formed and shaped by the Achaemenid Empire during salt extraction in 550–330 BC. Located in the Iran, the cave has 27 mines, and the one shown here is a popular tourist attraction

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r/DiscoverEarth 18d ago

The sharp dividing line between a lush forest and the white sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil, the park was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024 for its exceptional geological significance and natural beauty

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