Timelapse Of Europa & Io Orbiting Jupiter, Shot From Cassini During Its Flyby Of Jupiter

River Bends Through 1,000-Foot Canyons

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photograph of the Green River flowing through deep, red rock canyons in eastern Utah. A main tributary of the Colorado River, the Green flows 730 miles (1,175 kilometers) through Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. The portion of the Green River in this image is just north of Canyonlands National Park.

Bowknot Bend was named for the way the river loops back on itself. Located in Labyrinth Canyon about 25 miles west of Moab, Utah, this river bend runs 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) in a circular loop and ends up 1,200 feet (360 meters) from where it first started. When the two sides of the river merge someday, Bowknot Bend will break off from the main channel and form a lake.

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timelapse_around_the_world This is a view of the Tofana di Rozes. I find the clouds movement so beautiful I couldn’t share this timelapse with you. What do you think about it ? I took this footage from Lagazuoi.

A depiction of the actual sizes of each country. 

The world map we tend to see has the sizes of each country ‘stretched’ the further away it is from the equator. 

This arises from the issue of trying to display a spherical object on a flat, 2D and generally rectangular projection. 

This results in the gross misrepresentation of sizes for countries such as Russia, Canada, Greenland and even the US.

Top of Angel’s Landing - Zion National Park, UT [OC] [4032x1960] - Author: sanfranciscosam on reddit

Sennen Cove, Cornwall, England

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loganlambert When the Atlantic and Caribbean collide. The Glass Window Bridge is one of the deadliest roads in the world. The Atlantic is constantly raging against the calm serene waters of the Caribbean creating massive swells over the bridge. The day we shot here the bridge had closed because of a massive storm the day before that took the lives of two tourists. In order for us to get to the bridge we needed a police escort, but even then they couldn’t help us if we were taken by a wave. It’s so surreal to see a place like this exist. Just 9 meters stand apart between these two bodies of water. The bridge connects North and South Eleuthera and is vital to the economy of the island. If you can withstand the insane swells it’s one of the most surreal places i’ve ever seen. I’ll include some bts of the bridge on my story! 🚁

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Video by Bertie Gregory @bertiegregory | A harp seal pup takes its first swimming lesson in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec, Canada. This species has an extraordinary breeding cycle. Females give birth to pups on moving ice floes. They suckle the pup for just 10 to 14 days. During the last few days of this short period, they encourage the pup to get into the water to help them learn to swim (as seen in this video). After the swimming lessons, they abandon the pup. The females then mate with the males that have been waiting nearby, before heading north to their feeding grounds. The pups at two weeks old are left alone with nothing to eat. To see these awesome animals in action, check out my new online series "Wild_Life: The Big Freeze." Available on National Geographic YouTube and at natgeo.com/wildlife. Follow @bertiegregory for more on the series.