Cool Pictures Thread (no chat)

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Sarah Hörst, Assistant Prof of Planetary Science at Johns Hopkins University, recently got to hold a piece of the moon and Mars in her hand.

The black one is Mars, the gray one is the moon.

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Early morning fog sweeps over northwestern New Mexico, where Shiprock stands 1,583 feet tall. The formation holds special significance to the Navajo people, who govern the land surrounding it.

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palm trees between dramatic rocks




naaah..just particularly resilient seapink between stones

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"Look again at that [pale blue] dot. That's here. That's home. That's us."
- Carl Sagan

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Picture taken from poster on one of the auto Threads. Was a passenger in a car taking this pic apparently. Serious skills.

Carnut2015 wrote: »

72 corvette stingray heading for the m50, not really into classics but this was nice.

osarusan

Debdatta Chakraborty triumphed in the Bring Home the Harvest category with this shot of fishermen casting their nets in a perennial river in lower Bengal.

This is from the Food Photography of the Year awards, more photos here.

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a theatre from behind the stage

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a ct scanner without its outer cover

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Mike Litoris

Stunning miniature photography from this guy on Flickr. He creates all his own scenes from scratch using mostly 1:18 cars.


Lieutenant Frank Bullitt Color by Guilherme Holtz, on Flickr


His photostream is here.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/95316196@N04/

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Mount taranaki new Zeeland

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This flower was 3/4 of the way up the inside of Monte Corona. I couldnt resist but take a photo. It is a dormant Volcano in the north of Lanzarote.


To give you some scale of this volcano, bottom right is my father in law in blue. The first photo is taken on the far side between the two darkener ridges.

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evolving_doors wrote: »

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Mount taranaki new Zeeland

I can almost see my house in that...
The ring of forest is national park and is temperate rain forest.

It's also famous for this particular location and angle:


And wears some cool cloud hats from time to time:

osarusan

Northeast of Dakar, Senegal, algae turns Lake Retba's salty waters red.

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Kilmurren Waterford Sandart by Sean Corcoran

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The tree that was there 4,000 years before Jesus

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Evening fog rolls in over Sausalito, California.

donegal.

Jordan 199

Tabnabs

Hawaii.

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Mercury, Venus and Saturn above the pyramids of Giza, Egypt. This occurs once every 2373 years.

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Glass gem corn

Synode

Photo of earth taken by Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean. 1967.

Shamelessly stolen from Reddit here

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Saves on heating anyway !

Grid.

Well trained Wisteria!

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Anyone for a slice of cake?



More here.