Leptocephalus, The Transparent Larva Of The Eel. 

Alita: Battle Angel (2019) dir. Robert Rodriguez

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.

Stickney Crater : Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet’s moons in 1877. Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly half the diameter of Phobos itself, so large that the impact that blasted out the crater likely came close to shattering the tiny moon. This stunning, enhanced-color image of Stickney and surroundings was recorded by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it passed within some six thousand kilometers of Phobos in March of 2008. Even though the surface gravity of asteroid-like Phobos is less than 1/1000th Earth’s gravity, streaks suggest loose material slid down inside the crater walls over time. Light bluish regions near the crater’s rim could indicate a relatively freshly exposed surface. The origin of the curious grooves along the surface is mysterious but may be related to the crater-forming impact. via NASA

Meet David Latimer and his 58 year old bottle garden- We like David.

On Easter Sunday in 1960, David, using a ten gallon carboy, decided to make a bottle garden. He filled the vessel with compost, about 200ml of water and then delicately lowered in a spiderwort seedling (Tradescantia) using a piece of wire. He then placed the bottle near a window and let nature take over.

12 years later, David introduced another small amount of water, closed the container and it hasn’t been open since.

As you can see from the image, David’s bottle garden is thriving, but how has it flourished so much?

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