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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 10h

😲 Could this thing discovered in Antarctica be an ancient pyramid?

More info about it👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 12h

Have you ever wondered how many ancestors you have? Well, wonder no more, because this infographic will show you the mind-blowing numbers of your great-great-great-great-great (etc.) grandparents. The numbers get really crazy...

Full infographic👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 1d

There's a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that learned WWI was over only a year later. Tristan da Cunha is home to just 242 people and is located over 2,000 miles from the nearest landmass.

What living there is like👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 3d

No hurricane ever crossed the equator... This image shows tropical storms and hurricanes between 1948-2013 (darker being more intense).

Why hurricanes never cross the equator👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 3d

The Amazon river and its tributaries as seen from the International Space Station.

More amazing Amazon photos made from space👇
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📷 Alexander Gerst/ESA/NASA

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 4d

This rare optical sight called the "Brocken spectre" or the "mountain spectre" occurs when someone stands at a higher altitude on a mountain and sees their shadow cast on a cloud at a lower altitude.

More about the Brocken spectre:
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 5d

A home in Kansas saved from the 2017 wildfires. This image went viral with the caption "Homeowner turned his sprinklers on before leaving to escape a Kansas wildfire. He came home to this."

But that's only half of the story👇
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📷 Kansas National Guard

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 6d

A few drops of seawater under the microscope... 💧💧💧 It contains diverse planktonic organisms, ranging from photosynthetic cyanobacteria and diatoms to many different types of zooplankton.

What human tears look like under the microscope😭👇
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📷 David Liittschwager

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 7d

This isn't AI or Photoshop, but some mind-bending land art by Tanya Preminger!

More images/info about this amazing installation👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 8d

Surprise, surprise: Rome is slightly north of Chicago! Here are major North American cities replaced by major cities across the Atlantic on the same latitude.

More info about the actual pairs and more pairs👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 8d

🪨 An incredible hanging stone in the Sayan mountains of Siberia.

More about the incredible hanging stone👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 8d

More amazing historical pictures👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 9d

More about Don Juan Pond and what it reveals about the possibility of liquid water on Mars👇
earthlymission.com/don_juan_pon...

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 9d

🐌😮 The world's largest terrestrial snail is the giant African land snail - it can grow as large as an adult’s arm. Even after reaching adulthood, these snails will never stop growing.

More about the world's largest snail👇
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📷 Romana Yates

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 10d

🪨🏠🪨 Yes, it's real!

More amazing images/info about the house between the rocks👇
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📷 DIGITALAIN

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 11d

Archaeologists have uncovered a palace, a fortified building with large walls and towers, an industrial complex, and a huge multistorey warehouse.

More about the amazing discovery👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 11d

More about what and how bonobos speak👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 12d

Shark hunters have discovered a new population of the coelacanth, a 420-million-year-old four-legged fish fossil that predates dinosaurs and was once thought to be extinct.

More images/info about the four-legged fish fossil👇
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📷 Hans Fricke/Daniel Jolivet

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 13d

San Andreas fault superimposed over California landscape.

More about this image and the San Andreas fault👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 14d

What Cheer to Jackpot such an Okay map, Sugar Tit. It' a real Spread Eagle of oddities.

More about this map and where some of these names come from👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 14d

🐺❤️ These pups and their parents are the first gray wolves that have been spotted in Colorado since the 1940s, marking a historic moment for conservation efforts in the state!

Full story👇
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📷 NPS

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 14d

Where naval powers sailed between 1740-1855 based on 280,000 ship log entries.

More about this map/hi-res zoomable version👇
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Map by Peter Atwood

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 15d

The demonic-looking spiny orb-weaver spider.

More incredible-looking orb-weavers👇
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📷 Nick Hobgood

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 15d

Mongoose mums don't know which pup belongs to them... In banded mongoose societies, all females in a group give birth at the same time, creating a situation where they cannot distinguish their own pups from others.

Full story👇
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📷 Cloudtail the Snow Leopard

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