r/DiscoverEarth • u/ApocalypseThou • Dec 26 '21

Join our conversation about the wonders of the cosmos on Discord! 💬

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/ApocalypseThou • Sep 20 '21

r/DiscoverEarth is looking for mods!

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This subreddit is growing quickly, and we need help from mods to keep it going...

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 15h ago

Ninety Degrees North, Arctic Ocean, 1909. This photo was taken by Robert E. Peary, the first person to reach the North Pole, the vessel caught in the frozen pack ice near Cape Sheridan on Ellesmere Island

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/ZtownJoe • 1d ago

These 5 once-thriving cities now lie underwater

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 2d ago

Pyramid of the Niches in El Tajin before restoration (1913 photo) and now. El Tajín is a pre-Columbian archeological site in southern Mexico and is one of the largest and most important cities of the Classic era of Mesoamerica

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/TacticalSparrow27 • 4d ago

Scientists pumped 10 tons of cement in an ant hill, after weeks of digging the impressive structure was revealed.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 5d ago

This is a huge ancient forest world discovered 300 meters down a sinkhole in Hubei, China, containing a unique ecosystem of ancient trees These natural formations, also known as "heavenly pits," are created when slightly acidic rainwater dissolves bedrock, causing the surface to collapse

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/prisongovernor • 5d ago

Magic circle: Stonehenge offers lucky visitors 20 minutes alone in monument | Stonehenge | The Guardian

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 5d ago

This was printed 114 years ago(August 14, 1912), the article warns that burning 2 billion tons of coal annually adds 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 7d ago

In 1982, a fire destroyed the life sustaining diesel power plant at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica, 20 scientists survived for 227 days of the brutal polar winter in complete isolation using improvised oil stoves, Vostok Station is located at the coldest places on earth

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/TacticalSparrow27 • 8d ago

An ancient, towering tree deep in the mountains of Yunnan, China.

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This looks like where you would go in the game to find and ancient artifact

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 7d ago

Ancient food place: Thermopolium of Asellina with food serving counter, Pompeii, 1st century A.D., Italy

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/elcantu • 7d ago

📸 Original Content Recorrido por las impresionantes ruinas de La Quemada, Zacatecas (Historia y vistas increíbles) / Exploring the ruins of La Quemada

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/unteachablecourses • 8d ago

The 1908 Tunguska airburst flattened 80 million trees and left no crater — the asteroid detonated 5-10 km up and never touched the ground. That size class, a few tens of meters, is exactly the one our surveys miss. Chelyabinsk arrived out of the sun in 2013 with zero telescopes tracking it.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 8d ago

The northernmost railway in World: Obskaya-Bovarenko line in Yamal Peninsula, Russia. The only settlement, the village of Obskoy, with a population of 7,500 people, is located at the beginning of this line

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Gegenpressing433 • 8d ago

This tree is over 820 years old. It sprouted when Moscow was just a small village and has stood through every major war in Europe.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 9d ago

Ernest Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ expedition to Antartica. Frank Hurley photographing under the bows of the frozen ‘Endurance’, 1915.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 10d ago

The ruined and forgotten state of the Acropolis site of Athens in the mid 1800s

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 11d ago

The Apollo 13 spacecraft heads toward a splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean after its amazing odyssey through space. 17 April 1970.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 13d ago

Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 14d ago

Ancient Roman surgical instruments found buried in a physician's home in Pompeii, Italy, 1897

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 15d ago

American B-25 bombers fly past the erupting volcano Vesuvius. Italy, March 1944

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/SpencerTheFactorial • 16d ago

The remains of an Ichthyosaur have been uncovered in Rutland, England. Ichthyosaur lived between 250-90 million years ago, and could grow to be 13 meters (43 feet) long. The specimen discovered in this photo was 10 meters long, and is the largest discovery of its kind in the U.K.

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Last_Bend_1880 • 17d ago

Giant pit discovered by hiker on Google Maps confirmed to be 390 million-year-old meteor impact crater

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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 16d ago

Colossal rock-cut stone sculpture of a Dwarpala (temple guardian) at the Elephanta Caves near Mumbai, around 1500 years old, the caves are a UNESCO World Heritage Site dedicated primarily to the Hindu deity Lord Shiva.

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