Photography of deserts by George Steinmetz

Photography of deserts by George Steinmetz
Salt water pools look like a mosaic on the surface of the desert. Water from shallow wells is mixed with the salty soil, resulting in a suspension. Colors and shades depend on the color of dirt, algae and salt. National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz flew on a motorized paraglider over the deserts around the world, from China to Africa and Antarctica, and made beautiful shots. With an extensive background in geophysics, American photographer Steinmetz uses his photos to educate about the geographic features of deserts. All of his pieces are completely breathtaking.
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Tonik has become a good remindness that all animals are persons. Human faced dog

Human faced dog
Meet this two-year-old Shih Tzu, called Tonik. According to sources, some people rescued the poodle from a kill shelter in Kentucky, the United States. In fact, they saved him from being put down by the Homeward Bound Animal Welfare Group in Mishawaka, Indiana. The new owners describe the dog as ‘a very sweet boy who is trying to figure things out and enjoy people’. However, he is still in need of a loving home.
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Pteromys volans, or Siberian Flying squirrel

Siberian Flying squirrel
In fact, Siberian Flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is similar in appearance to the normal squirrel. However, its body seems to be flat, as on the sides between its front and rear legs on each side there is a fold of skin. This skin can stretch wide, covered with fur, so-called “patagium”. When the membrane is stretched to jump the Siberian Flying Squirrel may glide from tree to tree across distances of over a hundred meters. The flight of flying squirrels is not directed by tail, as some believe, but by membrane tension and the position of the front legs. Tail works in flight as stabilizer and helps to brake before landing on a tree trunk.
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Beautiful images of Chelyabinsk meteorite, photographer Marat Akhmetvaleyev

Beautiful images of Chelyabinsk meteorite
Russian photographer Marat Akhmetvaleyev, 31, is the only lucky person who has managed to take beautiful and professional shots of the flying meteorite, the moment of explosion. His photographs are sensational. That idyllic morning, quiet and peaceful, he was taking landscape pictures at the moment of appearing meteorite in the sky. His thoughts were confused and spontaneous. The first thing he thought – it’s a nuclear bomb.
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Beautiful desert in the eastern Siberia. Photo by Alexander Savchenko. Chara Sands Siberian Sahara

Chara Sands Siberian Sahara

Siberia is not only frozen land with tundra and taiga, great rivers and mountain ranges, but such sandy deserts as Chara Sands. It is located in eastern Siberia, between the ridges Udokan and Kadar in Stanovoy Highlands (Transbaikal region) tract. Chara Sands is a beautiful desert with sand dunes up to 15 meters. The length of the desert is about 10-15 km, and its width is 5 miles. Against the background of the neighboring larch taiga, glaciers and mountains of sand dunes look very strange, but picturesque.
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Such a funny elephant fish image appeared on the net. Elephant fish fake and real

Elephant fish fake and real
The above photo depicts Elephant fish, fake, not real. The image shared on a social site, many people take this image as a real elephant fish. However, it is not. The distant relative of sharks, skates and stingrays Elephant fish also has such names as Silver Trumpeter, Whitefish (in Australia), Makorepe, and Reperepe (in Maori). Noteworthy, its scientific name is Callorhinchus Milii. Traditionally, The elephant fish lives in deep water off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, but migrates annually into shallow coastal bays to lay their eggs. And this yellow image of Elephant Fish, so liked on the net, is just a work of Photoshop.
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Architectural masterpiece on man-made island – Beautiful Malacca Strait Mosque

Beautiful Malacca Strait Mosque
The Supreme Ruler of Malaysia Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Syed Putra Jamalullail opened the ceremony in November 2006. The mosque is a very special place, not only because its architectural beauty. Located on the artificial island, made by people in Malacca Town, Malaysia, the mosque is unique. The Malacca Strait Mosque stands on top of columns above the water, with a minaret, that looks like a lighthouse. When the water level is high, the temple looks like a floating structure. The island infrastructure includes thousands units of residential and mixed commercial development together with leisure-cum-tourism amenities – marine theme park, marina, hotels and waterfront activities.
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Beautiful colors of Mercury

The planet Mercury in reality is brown, colors were produced by putting together thousands of of NASA’s images of Mercury surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (Known as Messenger) spacecraft, which is in orbit around the innermost planet. Engineers used eight color filters on the spacecraft’s camera to accentuate real color variations that are linked to the composition and texture of materials on the surface. Areas with a redder color appear red, and areas with a grayer color appear blue. Young crater rays, arrayed radially around fresh impact craters, appear light blue or white. Color variations on Mercury’s surface are subtle, and to the human eye Mercury would appear to be varying shades of dark brown,’ Nasa said.
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Dallol – a volcanic explosion crater (or maar) in the Danakil Depression, northeast of the Erta Ale Range. Ethiopia Dallol volcano

Ethiopia Dallol volcano
Dallol is an active volcanic crater located in Ethiopia. The beautiful volcano is famous for its extra-terrestrial landscapes reminiscent of Io, a satellite of Jupiter, its colorful composition of sulfur and lava under-site. In 1926, a large explosion created a large lake located at an altitude of 48 meters below sea level. The Lake has beautiful violet-yellow color. At the edge of the crater there is the village of Dallol.
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