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102-year-old ship became a floating forest (6 pictures)

Homebush Bay in Sydney is the place were many 20th century ships, which are no longer used, ended up: one of them, the SS Ayrfield, is definitely the most impressive sight for all the lush flora, growing in its rusted hull. The fully-grown mangrove trees earned this 102-year-old, 1,140-tonne ship the Floating Forest name among the locals.

Walking on Clear Ice

Most of the time when we see a frozen body of water, like a lake or a pond, the ice is cloudy or white. You typically cannot see to the bottom, or anywhere below...

One Year on Earth – Seen From 1 Million Miles

On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the world the first image of the sunlit side of Earth captured by the space agency’s EPIC camera on NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite. The camera has now recorded a full year of life on Earth from its orbit at Lagrange point 1, approximately 1 million miles from Earth, where it is balanced between the gravity of our home planet and the sun.

Jupiter From ‘Below’

While the original image, shared by NASA back in 2008, has more muted colors, this updated image shared by 2014justin on reddit has bumped up the contrast and saturation to Instagram-like levels 😉