20 Fascinating Photos of Our Fascinating World
Daniel Bonfiglio
Published
10/29/2024
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Did you know that humans are going back to the moon? After an absence of over 50 years, NASA’s Artemis III mission is set to take a crew to the Moon's unexplored south pole in 2026.
Check out a photo of the mission's possible landing sights, along with 19 other fascinating photos of our fascinating world and beyond.
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Senegalese inventor Baila Ndiaye with the first Senegalese car, The Syndiély, which he built using recycled car and motorcycle parts. -
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This toilet at a Dutch Supermarket lets you test the brands of toilet paper they sell. -
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Dolphins swimming in bioluminescent dinoflagellate plankton. -
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Austro-Hungarian trench raiders near Caporetto, 1917. -
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Shark skin under an electron microscope. -
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“This 700 year old tree that I found while stopping at a restaurant in Bulgaria.” -
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Sunset on Mars. -
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The interior of an LNG cargo ship. -
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NASA’s Artemis III astronauts will land on the Moon for the first time in over 50 years and these are the nine viable options NASA is considering as landing sites near the lunar South Pole, a place we’ve never set foot before. -
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Archaeologists unearth wooden spade, preserved in an English trench for 3,500 years. While most wooden artifacts disintegrate after thousands of years, the newly unearthed oak tool has remained in remarkable condition. -
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Firebird 3, released to the public in 1958. -
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The Paradiso Art Hotel in Ibiza offers one suite at zero cost, but the room has transparent glass walls. -
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Three women from the New York City Women’s Machine Gun Squad Police Reserves test a Lewis Machine Gun mounted on a henderson Motorcycle, circa 1918. -
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Anglerfish: The much smaller males seek out, bite and then permanently fuse to females, where they spend the rest of their lives producing sperm for their egg-laying hosts. -
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Elma Godwin, a new mom, passed her uniquely rare hair trait to her newborn daughter. -
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Coal is dispensed into a coal hopper train. -
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The feral horses that live on Cumberland Island, Georgia (US), were introduced to the area in the 16th century by Spanish missionaries. Today they number between 120-175 on the small barrier island and survive with no human assistance in the harsh environment. -
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Austrian F1 driver Jochen Rindt remains the only driver to have won a world championship posthumously. He died after a crash at the 1970 Italian Grand Prix, but since he had already won five races that season, his competitors were unable to score sufficient points to catch him in the remaining races. -
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Robot manicurists do nails for $10 in 10 minutes. -
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The Teapot Dome Service Station in Zillah, Washington, a former working gas station.
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