hk landscape
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Mirrored Hall of Diamonds (Talar Almas) of Golestan Royal Palace Tehran, Iran was built under Qajar patronage and rebuilt in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Forty years ago, a vast molten cavity known as the Darvaza crater – nicknamed the “door to hell” – opened up in the desert of north Turkmenistan, and has been burning ever since. Now, Canadian explorer George Kourounis has became the first to make the descent into the fiery pit to look for signs of life (x)“We did find some bacteria living at the bottom that are very comfortable living in those high temperatures, and the most important thing was that they were not found in any of the surrounding soil outside of the crater,” he says. “Outside of our solar system, there are planets that do resemble the conditions inside this pit, and [knowing that] can help us expand the number of places where we can confidently start looking for life outside of our solar system.”
DUDE.
For teaching: geology, exobiology
by rhea thierstein photographed by tim walker for vogue italia.
the sky tonight was so beautiful and dreamy that i had to take advantage of the opportunity because i feel as if this is the last time in a long time that it would be this haunting
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