Amazing World Facts

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Miraculous Messages From Water

Water is a very malleable substance. Its physical shape easily adapts to whatever environment is present. But its physical appearance is not the only thing that changes, the molecular shape also changes. The energy or vibrations of the environment will change the molecular shape of water. In this sense water not only has the ability to visually reflect the environment but it also molecularly reflects the environment.


Mr. Emoto has been visually documenting these molecular changes in water by means of his photographic techniques. He freezes droplets of water and then examines them under a dark field microscope that has photographic capabilities.
His work clearly demonstrates the diversity of the molecular structure of water and the effect of the environment upon the structure of the water.
Mr. Emoto has discovered many fascinating differences in the crystalline structures of water from many different sources and different conditions around the planet. Water from pristine mountain streams and springs show the beautifully formed geometric designs in their crystalline patterns.
Polluted and toxic water from industrial and populated areas and stagnated water from water pipes and storage dams show definitively distorted and randomly formed crystalline structures.

Sanbu-ichi Yusui Spring water

Japan Shimanto River, referred to as the last clean stream in Japan

Antarctic Ice

Fountain in Lourdes, France

Biwako Lake, the largest lake at the center of Japan and the water pool of the Kinki Region. Pollution is getting worse

Yodo River, Japan, pours into the Bay of Osaka. The river passes through most of the major cities in Kasai

Untreated Distilled Water

Fujiwara Dam, before offering a prayer

Fujiwara Dam, after offering a prayer

After seeing water react to different environmental conditions, pollution and music, Mr. Emoto and colleagues decided to see how thoughts and words affected the formation of untreated, distilled, water crystals, using words typed onto paper by a word processor and taped on glass bottles overnight.
The same procedure was performed using the names of deceased persons. The waters were then frozen and photographed.

Heavy Metal Music

You Make Me Sick, I Will Kill You

Adolph Hitler

Thank You

Love and Appreciation

Mother Teresa

These photographs show the incredible reflections of water, as alive and highly responsive to every one of our emotions and thoughts.

Masaru Emotos extraordinary work is an awesome display, and powerful tool, that can change our perceptions of ourselves and the world we live in, forever. We now have profound evidence that we can positively heal and transform ourselves and our planet by the thoughts we choose to think and the ways in which we put those thoughts into.

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Ten of the World's Strangest Plant Species
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Welwitschia mirabilis:World's Most Resistant Plant

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It's not pretty to look at, but Namibia's plant Welwitschia Mirabilis can truly claim to be one of a kind. There really is nothing like it. Welwitschia plant consists of only two leaves and a sturdy stem with roots. That's all! Two leaves continue to grow until they resemble the shaggy mane of some sci-fi alien. The stem thickens, rather than gains in height, and can grow to be almost 2 meters high and 8 meters wide. Their estimated lifespan is 400 to 1500 years. It can survive up to five years with no rain. The plant is said to be very tasty either raw or baked in hot ashes, and this is how it got its other name, Onyanga, which means onion of the desert




Dionaea muscipula: the Venus Fly Trap
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The Venus Fly Trap is the most famous of all carnivorous plants due to the active and efficient nature of its unique traps. It may be famous, but it's also threatened. The plant's two hinged leaves are covered in ultra sensitive fine hairs that detect the presence of everything from ants to arachnids. Trigger the hairs and snap! The trap will shut in less than a second





Rafflesia arnoldii: World's Largest Flower

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There is one exotic and rare plant you wouldn't likely want to grow anywhere near your landscape no matter how famous it would make you for doing so. That would be growing the largest flower in the world. This exotic, very rare, speckled, though not particularly pretty, rust colored flower is called Rafflesia Arnoldii.

Rafflesia Arnoldii, recently assigned to the Euphorbiaceae family, is the biggest individually produced flower in the world. It gets to be 3 feet across and weighing a whopping 15- 24 pounds. That's pretty darn big but still you would not like this flower in your perennial bed. Why is that? If you could mimic a rainforest type environment for this plant, it gives off a most offensive odor when in bloom. This scent is somewhat like rotting meat. This is why it is often called the Corpse Plant by some natives of Indonesia where it originates.

Its blossoms only last three days to a week. But in those few days it needs a miracle or two just for survival. This hideous smell it produces attracts pollinating insects to it to help perpetuate the species. But even when this happens only 10-20 percent of the tiny seedlings make it. With any luck in nine months it blooms




Desmodium gyrans: the Dancing Plant


Darwin called the plant Hedysarum; modern botanists call it either Desmodium Gyrans, or more correctly these days, Codariocalyx Motorius. Its common name is Dancing Grass or Telegraph Plant or Semaphore Plant -- after the leaf movements, which resemble semaphore signals. For all of its uses this plant is easy to grow, dancing happily on a sunny windowsill and watered when dry. Some say it dances best to the "Greatful Dead




Euphorbia obesa: the Baseball Plant
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Euphorbia Obesa, also known as the Baseball Plant, is endemic to the Great Karoo region of South Africa. Unsustainable harvesting by plant collectors who value Euphorbia obesa for its interesting and curious appearance has severely impacted wild populations. Consequently, national and international legislation have been enacted to protect remaining populations. While Euphorbia obesa remains endangered in its native habitat, it has become very common in cultivation. By growing large numbers of Euphorbia obesa, nurseries and botanical gardens have been working to ensure that specimens being traded and sold among plant collectors are not obtained from the wild




Amorphophallus titanum: the Corpse Flower


A flower taller than a man, stinking strongly of putrefying roadkill and colored deep burgundy to mimic rotting flesh, sounds like something from a low-budget science fiction movie. But Indonesia's titan arum—or "corpse flower," as known by locals—is a real, if rare, phenomenon, pollinated in the wild by carrion-seeking insects. This Indonesian plant, called titan arum or amorphophallus titanium, has the world's biggest inflorescence. Due to its fragrance, which is reminiscent of the smell of a decomposing mammal, the Titan Arum is also known as a carrion flower, the "Corpse flower", or "Corpse plant"l




Baobab: the Bottle Tree
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Baobab is the common name of a genus (Adansonia) containing eight species of trees, native to Madagascar, mainland Africa and Australia. Also known as the Bottle Tree, not only do they look like bottles, but the trees typically store around 300 liters of water! No wonder why they often live over 500 years




Dracaena cinnabari: the Dragon Blood Tree


Dracaena Cinnabari is a Dragon Tree native to the Socotra archipelago. It is also referred to as the Dragon Blood Tree and Socotra Dragon Tree. It is one of the most striking of Socotra's plants, a strange-looking, umbrella-shaped tree. It was first formally described by Isaac Bayley Balfour in 1882. A miniature Icon of this tree is in Windows as Network-Icon. Its red sap was the dragon's blood of the ancients, sought after as a medicine and a dye




Mimosa púdica: the Shy Plant


Mimosa Pudica (pudica = shy), or the Sensitive Plant, has a curiosity value: the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken, re-opening within minutes. The species is native to South America and Central America, but is now a pantropical weed. Who would know that plants have feelings too?




Selaginella lepidophylla: the Resurrection Plant
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Also known as Rose of Jericho, the Selaginella Lepidophylla is a species of desert plant noted for its ability to survive almost complete desiccation; during dry weather in its native habitat, its stems curl into a tight ball and uncurl when exposed to moisture. It is native to the Chihuahuan Desert.

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10 Amazing fact about you

1-Body position affects your memory

Can't remember your anniversary, hubby? Try getting down on one knee. Memories are highly embodied in our senses. A scent or sound may evoke a distant episode from one's childhood. The connections can be obvious (a bicycle bell makes you remember your old paper route) or inscrutable. A recent study helps decipher some of this embodiment. An article in the January 2007 issue of Cognition reports that episodes from your past are remembered faster and better while in a body position similar to the pose struck during the event.
2 - Your Skin Has Four Colors

All skin, without coloring, would appear creamy white. Near-surface blood vessels add a blush of red. A yellow pigment also tints the canvas. Lastly, sepia-toned melanin, created in response to ultraviolet rays, appears black in large amounts. These four hues mix in different proportions to create the skin colors of all the peoples of Earth.

3 - Big Brains Cause Cramped Mouths

Evolution isn't perfect. If it were, we might have wings instead of wisdom teeth. Sometimes useless features stick around in a species simply because they're not doing much harm. But wisdom teeth weren't always a cash crop for oral surgeons. Long ago, they served as a useful third set of meat-mashing molars. But as our brains grew our jawbone structure changed, leaving us with expensively overcrowded mouths.

4 - Your Stomach Secretes Corrosive Acid

There's one dangerous liquid no airport security can confiscate from you: It's in your gut. Your stomach cells secrete hydrochloric acid, a corrosive compound used to treat metals in the industrial world. It can pickle steel, but mucous lining the stomach wall keeps this poisonous liquid safely in the digestive system, breaking down lunch.
5 - Bones Break (Down) to Balance Minerals

In addition to supporting the bag of organs and muscles that is our body, bones help regulate our calcium levels. Bones contain both phosphorus and calcium, the latter of which is needed by muscles and nerves. If the element is in short supply, certain hormones will cause bones to break downeupping calcium levels in the bodyeuntil the appropriate extracellular concentration is reached.
6 - Much of a Meal is Food For Thought

Though it makes up only 2 percent of our total body weight, the brain demands 20 percent of the body's oxygen and calories. To keep our noggin well-stocked with resources, three major cerebral arteries are constantly pumping in oxygen. A blockage or break in one of them starves brain cells of the energy they require to function, impairing the functions controlled by that region. This is a stroke.

7 - Thousands of Eggs Unused by Ovaries

When a woman reaches her late 40s or early 50s, the monthly menstrual cycle that controls her hormone levels and readies ova for insemination ceases. Her ovaries have been producing less and less estrogen, inciting physical and emotional changes across her body. Her underdeveloped egg follicles begin to fail to release ova as regularly as before. The average adolescent girl has 34,000 underdeveloped egg follicles, although only 350 or so mature during her life (at the rate of about one per month). The unused egg follicles then deteriorate. With no potential pregnancy on the horizon, the brain can stop managing the release of ova.

8 - Puberty Reshapes Brain Structure, Makes for Missed Curfews

We know that hormone-fueled changes in the body are necessary to encourage growth and ready the body for reproduction. But why is adolescence so emotionally unpleasant? Hormones like testosterone actually influence the development of neurons in the brain, and the changes made to brain structure have many behavioral consequences. Expect emotional awkwardness, apathy and poor decision-making skills as regions in the frontal cortex mature.
9 - Cell Hairs Move Mucus

Most cells in our bodies sport hair-like organelles called cilia that help out with a variety of functions, from digestion to hearing. In the nose, cilia help to drain mucus from the nasal cavity down to the throat. Cold weather slows down the draining process, causing a mucus backup that can leave you with snotty sleeves. Swollen nasal membranes or condensation can also cause a stuffed schnozzle.

10 - The World Laughs with You

Just as watching someone yawn can induce the behavior in yourself, recent evidence suggests that laughter is a social cue for mimicry. Hearing a laugh actually stimulates the brain region associated with facial movements. Mimicry plays an important role in social interaction. Cues like sneezing, laughing, crying and yawning may be ways of creating strong social bonds within a group.

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10 Most Amazing Rock Formations Around the World
Pasabag, Turkey


These incredible pillars located in Pasabag Valley, Turkey are called fairy chimneys. They were formed from soft volcanic rock that eroded over 30 million years. Some of the pillars have double and triple mushroom-shaped caps. A hermit named Saint Simeon was living in seclusion at a top of a chimney like this in 5th century in the area of Aleppo – when the rumours of his miracles spread, he tried to escape this attention by living in a taller cell carved into one of these formations (comprised of three chimneys). At first he lived at the top of a 2m column and later on moved on to one of 15m in height. Since then, several hermits carved cells and a church in the chimneys. There is still a small church dedicated to St. Simeon still operating in one of the chimneys.

Three Rondavels, South Africa


Three Rondavels are located in Blyde Canyon (third deepest in the world), in South Africa. These huge, round rocks are thought to be reminiscent of the houses or huts of the indigenous people, known as rondavels. This landscape is thought to have inspired the setting in Lord of the Rings by South African-born JRR Tolkien.

Wave Rock, Australia

The Wave Rock in Australia derives its name from the fact that it is shaped like a tall breaking ocean wave. The total outcrop covers several hectares. The wave is about 15 metres high and approximately 110 meters long. Wave Rock is composed of granite and the wave formation is thought to have formed 60 million years ago. The shape of the rock was formed by underground chemical weathering followed by removal of the soft weathered granite surface by erosion.

Devils Tower, United States


Devils Tower is America’s First National Monument. Also known as Bears Lodge, it is a sacred site for many American Indians. Erosion revealed this curiously shaped rock over time. Devils Tower was formed approximately 60 million years ago when a volcanic eruption pushed molten lava upwards. As the lava cooled, it formed these incredible basalt columns.

The Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland, UK


The Giant’s Causeway is an area of 40,000 interlocking basalt columns that were formed in an ancient volcanic eruption 50 to 60 million years ago. The Giant’s Causeway is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also columns with four, five, seven and eight sides. The tallest columns are about 12 m high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 m thick in places. The area gets its name from an old Irish legend that tells us the Irish warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) built the causeway to walk to Scotland to fight his Scottish counterpart Benandonner.

Percé Rock, Canada


Percé Rock (from French rocher Percé, “pierced rock”) is an island and sheer rock formation in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence just off the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, Canada. The limestone stack is 433m long, 90m wide and 88m tall at its highest point. The formation gets its name from a small arch located at the bottom. The arch can only be visited for four hours at a time during low tide.

James Bond Island, Thailand


Originally known as Ko Tapu (Nail Island), this island gained fame when it was featured in a 1974 James Bond film “The Man with the Golden Gun”. Ko Tapu is a rocky monolith about 20m tall and is located in the Phang Nga Bay, which is known for it’s beautiful rock formations.

Queen’s Head, Taiwan


This formation is located in Yehlia Geopark, Taiwain – an area of unusual natural formations of sandstone with limestone rocks which have been sculpted by wind and sea erosion. The erosion process left interesting pillar and mushroom-shaped formations scattered throughout the site. Many of them have interesting names such as the Queen’s Head (the most famous formation shaped like Queen Nefertiti), Fairy’s Shoe, Candle, Stone Heart, Bean Curd, Dragon Head.

Spider Rock, United States


Spider Rock is a pinnacle formation in Canyon de Chelly, United States. The oldest sedimentary rock in the area was deposited in Pennsylvanian time (about 280 million years ago) in the era before dinosaurs, when the Colorado Plateau region was a hot and humid coastal plain. Today, these dominantly reddish-brown mudstone layers are exposed along the base of the canyon and in formations such as Spider Rock which have been formed by erosion over millions of years.

Ergaki Hanging Rock, Russia


Ergaki mountain range is located in Central Siberia, Russia. The Hanging Rock an enormous block of granite-syenite rock weighting 10 tones and a volume of 30m3 which lies on top of one of Ergaki’s peaks. It’s quite a mist

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Ten Things Global Warming Could Change Forever

Great Barrier Reef may be gone in 20 years

The Great Barrier Reef will be so degraded by warming waters that it will be unrecognizable within 20 years. Charlie Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, told The Times: “There is no way out, no loopholes. The Great Barrier Reef will be over within 20 years or so.” Once carbon dioxide had hit the levels predicted for between 2030 and 2060, all coral reefs were doomed to extinction, he said. “They would be the world's first global ecosystem to collapse. I have the backing of every coral reef scientist, every research organization. I've spoken to them all. This is critical. This is reality.”




Amazon Rain Forest may turn into a desert

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Teeming with millions of species and one-fifth of the world's fresh water, the Amazon is the world's largest tropical rainforest. However, global warming and deforestation are reversing the forest's role as a carbon sink, converting 30-60% of the rainforest into dry savannah. Projections show the forest could disappear completely by 2050.





Sahara Desert may become green

Scientists are seeing signals that the Sahara desert and surrounding regions are greening due to increasing rainfall. If sustained, these rains could revitalize drought-ravaged regions, reclaiming them for farming communities. This desert-shrinking trend is supported by climate models, which predict a return to conditions that turned the Sahara into a lush savanna some 12,000 years ago.




Hurricanes may became more devastating than Katrina

It has not been determined whether Katrina was linked to global warming. But there are indications that global warming will produce more Category 5 hurricanes --and Katrina was only Category 4 when it hit Louisiana. Hurricanes derive their power in part from warm water, and so forecasting models show future hurricanes becoming more severe as sea surface temperatures rise. Global warming also makes hurricanes more destructive by raising the sea level, which leads to more serious coastal flooding. (According to the EPA, a two-foot rise would swallow a chunk of the U.S. bigger than Massachusetts.)





London may disappear underwater by 2100

It isn't only reefs and low-lying islands that are under threat from global warming. In fact, a major threat is for those large urban areas which are at risk of eventually being submerged underwater. This is caused by a change in sea levels that occurs when global warming takes place, resulting in coastal cities being destroyed by flooding. Dozens of the world's cities, including London and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to research which suggests that global warming will increase sea levels more rapidly than was previously thought. London is one of the major world capitals at high risk of this type of flooding, as depicted in this shot from the 2007 movie Flood. Scientists say that the city could be under water as early as within the next one hundred years.




Animals may shrink


Warming climate may favor small species over large ones. The research, based on analysis of body mass of fish, plankton, and bacteria in European ecosystems, comes just weeks after scientists reported that sheep on a Scottish island are shrinking due to warmer conditions.

The new study reveals that individual species lost an average of 50 percent of their body mass over the past 30 years. The reduced body size is the third universal ecological response to global warming. An earlier sheep study suggested that shorter and milder winters mean lambs do not need to put on as much as weight as they once did in order to survive their first year of life, a factor that could also impact fish populations. Nonetheless the researchers say the shift could alter food chains, with apex predators being particularly affected by shrinking prey.





two thousand Indonesian islands may disappear

At least 2,000 small islands across archipelagic Indonesia may disappear by 2030 as a consequence of excessive mining and other environment-damaging activities. Indonesia has already lost 24 of its more than 17,500 islands





Global warming may increase terrorism

Global warming could destabilize "struggling and poor" countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists. People are likely to flee destabilized countries, and some may turn to terrorism. The conditions exacerbated by the effects of climate change could increase the pool of potential recruits into terrorist activity. According to the chairman of the National Intelligence Council in the US, economy refugees will perceive additional reasons to flee their homes because of harsher climates. That will put pressure on countries receiving refugees, many of which will have neither the resources nor interest to host these climate migrants.





The Alps may melt completely

Glaciers are retreating in warm, dry winters and hotter summers caused by global warming, and although snowfall in the 2008-2009 ski seasons was substantial, overall recent years have seen less snow at low altitudes, and receding glaciers and melting permafrost higher up - with a significant impact on winter tourism activities. It is predicted that the glaciers will be gone between 2030 and 2050. Italy and Switzerland have decided to redraw their border after global warming dissolved Alpine glaciers that marked out the frontier between the two countries.





The Maldives may be submerged

The lowest and flattest country in the world is suffering coastal erosion, and could find itself submerged if sea levels carry on rising, with the islands growing smaller and smaller. This extreme prediction is a devastating prospect for residents and bad news for the tourists who descend on its soft white beaches and warm waters each year. Scientists give it only about one hundred years before it completely disappears into the ocean surrounding it.

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Horse Facts

A female seahorse lets her husband store her babies inside his stomach!

Sea horses pull themselves around with their chins leading them.

Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike.

Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions.

A horse will respond to your emotions/feelings mainly because they are very sensitive animals. Example: if you are angry / frustrated the horse will be frustrated also. But if you are happy and smiling the horse should be good in your lesson or ride.

There are no two zebras who have stripes that are exactly the same.

There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world.

It's not only zebra's fur that is striped, their skin is also striped.

All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on January 1st.

A full grown horse's intestines are approximately 89 feet long.
If a horse rests it head on your shoulder it means the horse trusts you.
When you hold your hand out to a horse and the horse comes over and blows out warm air onto the palm of your hand it normally means that the horse wants to be friends with you.

Horses have stomachs also and they need to eat. Horses should be fed two times a day.

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Coolest Google Earth Finds

Dubbed the "Badlands Guardian" by locals, this geological marvel (Google Earth coordinates 50.010083,-110.113006) in Alberta, Canada, bears an uncanny resemblance to a human head wearing a full Native American headdress--and earphones, to boot. Of course, The Guardian was produced naturally.




A synthetic wonder that can be truly appreciated only from above, this giant man-shaped lake (-21.805149,-49.089977) is located near Bauru, Brazil.




This heart-shaped island in the Adriatic became a hit on Google Earth for Valentine's Day. The uninhabited island is only 130,000 square yards and is called Galesnjak. The owner didn't even know how perfectly this island off the Croatian coast was until he was swamped with requests from couples to stay there.




This fingerprint can be found in Hove Park, near Brighton and Hove in the UK. It measures 38 metres around. Imagine the size of the hand.




Rhett Dashwood, a graphic designer from Australia, created the first Google Maps alphabet, featuring all 26 letters, using satellite images of natural features and buildings.




Lion, at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo located at Whipsnade, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England.




Some of the sights you find in Google Earth are just plain mysterious. For example, why is a fighter jet parked (Google Earth coordinates 48.825183,2.1985795) in what looks to be a residential neighborhood lot near Paris?




This is a US Navy building in Coronado, Ca. that was unintentionally built in the shape of a swastika. Now, because of a public uproar, the Navy will be spending $600,000 to alter the shape of the building.




In the early days of Firefox, a few devoted fans wanted to generate more PR for their beloved site and so gathered a team of people in Amity, Oregon to recreate the Firefox logo in a field; their very own fox crop.




Last year, one of the Google Earth Community members called 'ear1grey' posted an amazing discovery. He found a huge picture (36 miles tall) of Santa!




So here's a giant Ipod Shuffle! It looks like a farmer's field with a horse pen or something on it? Either that or a hard core apple enthusiast. Unfortunately, it looks like he moved the pen on the map since it was first spotted.




Google Earth doesn't have advertising, unless you consider the corporate logos and trademarks big enough to be seen from space. Check out this massive Coca-Cola logo (-18.529225,-70.25002) etched into a hillside of Chile with 70,000 Coke bottles. Haven't they heard of recycling?




As if Oprah Winfrey's celebrity weren't already big enough, an Arizona farmer built a 10-acre homage to the talk show host (Google Earth coordinates 33.225488,-111.5955).




Too late now, huh?

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Satellite photographs of the Earth


1) In April 2001, the scanning spectroradiometer of average permission MODIS, Terra of agency NASA established on the satellite, photographed the dusty storm turned above China. The confidently collecting revolutions cyclone turned above China counterclockwise, moving, thus, the walls of dust. Thick, yellowish- brown dust is so dense which not only hides the earth's surface, but also almost which forms its own relief, raising the crests of dust under the clouds. The width of the spiral arm of white clouds is the approximately 200 km (NASA/Jesse Of allen, Robert Simmon/MODIS science of team)


2) The photograph of the bear glacier Of the [kenayskogo] peninsula of bay Alaska is made on August 8, 2005 from the satellite IKONOS. In this photograph the region of the washing out, where the glacier begins to melt, is shown. The foot of glacier being risen upward along the slope is riddled by the clefts - cracks in ice, which were appeared because of the displacements of glacier over the uneven surface. Nearer to the middle of glacier begin dark gray strips. In proportion to the displacement of glacier they are filled by mud and fragments of cliffs. When converge two glaciers, as in our case, mud and fragments are displaced to the surface from the parallel strips or the middle deposits. (Photograph from the satellite IKONOS Of geoEye)



3) The south of Khartoum, Sudan - place, where they are connected the Nile and the blue Nile, and the giddy systematization of irrigation pour on it lies through entire state. Several small “bare” sections of the earth - this of villa. This photograph was made with the aid of the system Of the [usovershenstvovannogo] space thermionic-emission and reflecting radiometer (ASTER) from the satellite Of terra of agency NASA on December 25, 2006. (NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, U.S. /Japan ASTER Of science Of team)



4) This crater is located in the depth of desert the Sahara. Having a form of almost ideal circle, its width is 1.9 kilometers (1.2 miles), and the height of external edge - 100 meters (330[futov]). This crater is arranged on the extensive plane of the rock, which was being formed for hundreds of millions years before the appearance of the first dinosaurs on the Earth. Contemporary geologists have long ago argued about the reasons for the appearance of this crater, some of them are inclined to the idea of the volcanic formation of crater. However, with the more careful study of structure, it is possible to reveal that this petrified “lava” - in actuality the mountain, molten from the impact of meteorite about the Earth. System ASTER, established on the satellite Of terra of agency NASA made a photograph Of tenoumer crater in the Mauritania on January 24, 2008. (NASA, Jesse Of allen, NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, U.S. /Japan ASTER Of science Of team)




5) In the middle December 2008 cloudless sky made possible to make a clear photograph of Tibet. On December 18, 2008 system MODIS, located on board the satellite Of terra of agency NASA, made this photograph in the natural colors. The snowy caps of some summits and the partially covered with ice lakes in this alpine region, were called name “roof of peace” (NASA/Jeff Of schmaltz, MODIS Of rapid Of response Of team, Goddard Of space Of flight Of center)




6) On December 13, 1999, with the aid of the system Of [usovershenstvovannogo] [Kartopostroitelya] with the classification of geological regions plus (ETM+), established on the satellite Of landsat of 7 agencies NASA, was made the photograph of the national park Of sidi Of toui, located in southern half of Tunisia, near the Libyan boundary. In the territory of this guarded park (with width approximately on the order of 7 km), it is possible to see natural vegetation. Park was based in 1993 for averting [opustynivaniya] of region. The consequences of continuous agriculture, excessive pasturing and drought can be estimated, after looking at the barren earth surrounding park. (NASA/Jesse Of allen/Landsat, USGS)




7) In the photograph are visible two cyclones, that formed tandem in November 2006. This photograph of two cyclones to the south of Iceland was made a system (MODIS) of agency NASA from the satellite Of terra on November 20 (on the image the south it is located from above) (NASA/Jesse Of allen, Earth Of observatory)



8) Even at the most snow-covered places on the Earth there are sections, uncovered by snow. In Antarctica, between sea of Ross and [Vostochno]-[antarkticheskiy] by icy panel, is located the group of in parallel being been arranged valleys. Known as Dry Of valleys (dry valleys), they are almost incessantly blown through by the down winds - cold, dry air, which is carried downward to the sea from the elevations of icy panel. Refuge in the dry valleys - accumulation of glaciers and the covered with ice lakes. This spectrozonal photograph was made a system ASTER of agency NASA from the satellite Of terra, on November 29, 2000. (NASA/Jesse Of allen, NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, U.S. /Japan ASTER Of science Of team)




9) Approximately 480 to 320 kilometers, Dasht- e Of lut - large salt desert on the southeast of Iran. In this photograph, performed in the natural colors by the system ASTER of agency NASA from the satellite Of terra on May 13, 2006, is visible the section of the southeastern part Dasht- e Of lut. This region from the sand, and here are found some of the highest in the world dunes, some of them reach in the height of 300 meters (1000 feet) (NASA/Jesse Of allen, Earth Of observatory, NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, U.S. /Japan ASTER Of science Of team)




10) During the last glacial period, the Canadian island Of akimiski was buried under ice, with thickness into several hundred meters, but from that moment as went away ice, island began to rise (raising high-altitude mark), new beach zones appeared, rivers and lakes were formed, and trees and another vegetation began to grow in the new territories. This photograph Of akimiski island was made a satellite Of landsat 7 on August 9, 2000. (NASA/Jesse Of allen, Landsat, University of Of maryland's Of global Of land Of cover Of facility)




11) Excessively high Antarctic mountains direct the flow of glacial panel into the fast-moving icy river by the name Of byrd Of glacier, located near excessively high Antarctic mountains direct the flow of glacial panel into Glacier swiftly rushes in the transatlantic mountains along the deep, 15- meter into the width channel, creating the icy flow bringing down stones, by extent into 100 miles. This photograph, made on December 24, 1999 a satellite Of landsat 7, shows the part of the current through the transatlantic mountains icy river Of byrd Of glacier (Jesse Of allen, Landsat Of image Of mosaic of Of antarctica, LIMA)





12) The largest in the world sandy sea, located in the Arabian peninsula - Empty Of quarter, or, also known as Rub' al Of khali (Rub- ale -[Khali]), contains into itself approximately one and a half times more sand, than desert the Sahara. The area Of empty Of quarter is 583,000 square kilometers (225,000 square miles), and it stretches in the territory between Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and [Obedinennymi] Arab emirates. System ETM, established on the satellite Of landsat of 7 agencies NASA, made this photograph on August 26, 2001. (NASA/Robert Of simmon, Landsat, USGS)




13) In the middle December 2005, tiny Ile Amsterdam released wave, but not in the Indian Ocean, where this to characteristically observe, but directly in the clouds overhead. System MODIS, which is been located on board the satellite Of terra of agency NASA, on December 19, 2005 fixed this action. By itself island is too small in order to examine; however, it serves as the starting point the clouds, it in the photograph which will float further to the northeast in the form of the enormous letter of the V. (NASA/Jeff Of schmaltz, MODIS Of land Of rapid Of response Of team at NASA GSFC)



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On this very detailed image dated March 8, 2008 made from the Taiwan satellite Of formosat-2 are represented the different in shape and size fragments of the fragments of the ice shelf of Antarctic peninsula. Several large icebergs sail among the mosaic of the small fragments of ice. The degree of detailing image is so good which can seem, as if you cost above the made to scale model from the papier-mache or the foam-blocks. This detailing can create fraudulent impression about the authenticity of the sizes of icebergs. In actuality, some large icebergs reach in the length of the order of several hundred meters (yards) (Formosat of image © 2008 Dr. Cheng-Chien Of liu, National Of cheng-Kung Of university and Dr. An-Ming Wu, National Of space Of organization, Taiwan)



15) These are the photograph of southeastern province the farce in the south of Iran, made in the false- natural tones, reflects the bed of river, which is cut through to the northeast through the arid earth of mountains. The broad band of the earth, covered with the violent vegetation of agricultural land, repeats the bends of dry delta and it scatters along the road, which goes in parallel to the line of ridge. The near-boundary regions of the valley of bright green agricultural zone smoothly pass into the pale verdure (or irrigating channels). Photograph was made a system ASTER from the satellite Of terra of agency NASA on October 12, 2004 (NASA/Jesse Of allen, NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, U.S. /Japan ASTER Of science Of team)



16) The tropical cyclone of Billy, which was attacked the West Coast of Australia on December 25, 2008, is photographed by system MODIS, established on the satellite Of aqua of agency NASA (NASA/Jeff Of schmaltz, MODIS Of rapid Of response Of team, Goddard Of space Of flight Of center)






17) In this photograph dated June 4, 2008 the evidently colorful flowering of phytoplankton throughout the entire territory of Black sea, along the South coast, near the Turkish cities Sinop (Sinop) and [Samsun] (Samsun). The photograph, which transmits natural color, was made a system MODIS, established on the satellite Of aqua of agency NASA. (NASA/MODIS Of rapid Of response Of team)




18) This photograph of forest on the north of the republic of the Congo was made on June 27, 2002 a commercial satellite Of ikonos. In the center of photograph dirt timber-carrying roads intersect (orange lines). This photograph - one of hundred of photographs, obtained with the aid of the commercial satellite and the satellite of agency NASA, was used by scientists of the research center “Of woods Of hole” for compiling of the map of the arrangement of timber-carrying roads and cutting down of forest in the territory into 4 million square kilometers of tropical African scaffolding to 3 decades periods of future 2003[goda] (NASA /Jesse Allen, IKONOS, Nadine Of laporte, Woods Of hole Of research Of center)




19) The mountain Of harrat Of khaybar in Saudi Arabia contains the set of the types of the volcanic rock and impressive reliefs of the earth's crust. Some of them are represented in this photograph, made by an astronaut from the international orbital station on March 31, 2008. Jabal (“mountain” in Arabic) al Of qidr was formed from the flows of the lava of dark liquid basalt of several eruptions. Jabal Of abyad, in the center of photograph, was formed of the thicker lava, rich in quartz, called also rhyolite. (NASA-JSC)




20) The photograph of the two-ton train of dust, persecuted to the north of the coast of Libya on October 26, 2007, is made a system MODIS, established on the satellite Of terra of agency NASA. Despite the fact that from the west side the train of beige color resembles sands of the Sahara, it is noticeably darker from the eastern side. (NASA/Jeff Of schmaltz, MODIS Of rapid Of response Of team, NASA-Goddard Of space Of flight Of center) 20) the photograph of the two-ton train of dust, persecuted to the north of the coast of Libya on October 26, 2007, is made a system MODIS, established on the satellite Of terra of agency NASA. Despite the fact that from the west side the train of beige color resembles sands of the Sahara, it is noticeably darker from the eastern side. (NASA/Jeff Of schmaltz, MODIS Of rapid Of response Of team, NASA-Goddard Of space Of flight Of center)





21) On May 18, 1980, during the volcanic eruption San -[Gelens] (Mount St. Helens), northern side crumbled, and massive flow from the stone, the silt and the volcanic fragments was carried downward along the mountain. This photograph, made on October 28, 2008 by an astronaut from the international orbital station, shows to us the place of incident almost three decades after eruption - is still noticeable the damage, substituted to afforestations in the region of gathering avalanche. From the south side of mountain the landscape is covered with dense green forest, while from the northern side vegetation rare, especially at high altitudes. (NASA/JSC)





22) In this photograph, made in September 2004 from the commercial satellite IKONOS, the house and the street of agitated Las Vegas, state of Nevada. (satellite IKONOS of ©2004 Of geoEye)





23) In this photograph, made by an astronaut on August 19, 2008, in Amazon and floodlands of numerous lakes is reflected the glitter of the rays of the setting sun. Are here seized order 150 kilometers of Amazon, at a distance approximately 1000 kilometers into the depth of continent from Atlantic Ocean. This sequence was caught by the crew of 17 expeditions of international orbital station on August 19, 2008. (NASA/JSC)