These incredible photos are the kind that make people speak up online and say “FAKE!” Before you jump to any conclusions, remember that nature can be pretty amazing and doesn’t need Photoshop to be impressive. So check out some of the most epic moments in nature caught on film in the gallery below.
Just open your mind to the possibility that these are real… once you do, you’re going to be blown away!
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Launched on May 7, 2013, the European Space Agency’s minisatellite Proba-V monitors Earth’s plants, covering the entire planet every two days.
At the end of the month, after a year in orbit, this little bundle of sensors will be taking over the job of a series of satellites that have been tracking the health of the planet’s vegetation for 16 years.
The ESA’s Spot-4 satellite stopped working in 2013, and Spot-5 is on its last legs.
Not only is Proba-V the size of a washing machine, it looks a little like one too. The minisatellite has a huge, 1,400-mile-wide field of view — enough to cover most continents in a single shot. In order to get the best information about Earth’s flora, the satellite’s Vegetation instrument detects light in the blue, red, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavebands. The instrument has a 1,150-foot resolution.
Accounting for cloud cover, the satellite collects enough data for a nearly cloud-free global map every 10 days.
In addition to keeping track of vegetation growth, the little satellite’s data makes beautiful images. Here are some of its best views of Earth from its first year in orbit.
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The Earth rises spectacularly as a tiny blue marble above the moon in a new NASA photo that hints at the fragility of humanity and the vastness of space.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the image on Feb. 1 with its wide-angle camera, depicting a colorized view of the Earth rising over the 112-mile-wide (180 kilometers) Rozhdestvenskiy crater. The event was one of 12 such “earthrises” that occur every day from the perspective of the moon.
The LRO spacecraft’s wide-angle camera takes images in a different way than most digital cameras. A typical cellphone camera has more than 5 million pixels, whereas a single frame of the LRO camera has fewer than 10,000 pixels. [Amazing Photos of Earth from Space]
But the LRO camera builds up a much larger image by taking multiple exposures as the spacecraft orbits, a technique known as “push-frame” imaging. Over the course of a month, the orbiter camera collects enough images to cover the whole moon.
The LRO usually spends its time staring at the lunar surface looking for signs of water or ice in permanently shadowed craters. But occasionally the spacecraft points into space to image the moon’s exosphere, the thin atmosphere-like layer surrounding it, or to calibrate the craft’s instruments. Sometimes, the spacecraft captures images of Earth (like this one) or other planets making their progress across the heavens.
In the image, Earth is a color composite of several frames, optimized for the colors blue, green and red. These colors match what the human eye detects, so they are true to what an average person might see.
Follow Tanya Lewis on Twitter and Google+.Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
This image, captured Feb. 1, 2014, shows a colorized view of Earth from the moon-based perspective of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Mothers Are Everywhere in Nature. |
| One of the thing we have most common with animals is our sense of family, and taking care of those that are close to us. More than anything, this comes to light when we look at mothers in nature and the animal kingdom, Not so different than our own, they are patient, giving, tenacious and wise, giving their children all of themselves. Look below for some fantastic photos of mothers in nature… |
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Dedication means offering to the Divine. When you offer flowers to God along with your salutation, it symbolizes offering of the flower of your heart. The flower of the heart is usually subjected to infestation by two evil creatures; they are Ego (Ahamkar) and Jealousy (Asuya). Ego is hard to conquer and arises from seven factors – Wealth, Physical Prowess, Birth, Scholarship, Beauty, Power and Penance. As long as Ahamkara is predominant, it is impossible to recognize the Divinity within. Ego is a great barrier between the individual and God, and must be totally demolished. All forms of pride (particularly that of wealth, scholarship and power) cause human failings and downfall, and hence must be given up totally. Only when egoistic pride is offered as a sacrifice at the altar of the Divine, you can discover your true divine nature.
Watch Flying Fish Lift Up From the Water!
This clip by BBC life shows the amazing mechanism of the flying fish, that is able to make powerful, self-propelled leaps out of water into air, where their long, wing-like fins enable gliding flight for up to 200 meters above the water’s surface. This uncommon ability is a natural defense mechanism to evade predators. It’s quite a sight, and perhaps one of the more extraordinary creatures in nature!
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Remarkable Body Art by Johannes Stotter! |
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Johaness Stoetter takes body art to new heights of creativity, transforming human models into fruits, animals, flowers or part of the environment itself, submerged into the background. She is the winner of the World Body-Painting Championship of 2012, and simply loves what she’s doing.
When asked about her inspiration, she replied that she observes the world and its colors and nature with clear eyes and an open heart, and that painting is her greatest passion.
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Karla Mialynne Show Her True Colors… |
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As a very talented painter, Karla Mialynne often gets asked how she creates the her paintings, and what she uses to bring them to life. And so, in order to shed a bit more light on the subject, she now takes photos of her works with the tools she used to create them. As you see, her main tools are watercolor pencils, colored markers and acrylic paint, all combined to give her paintings vivid colors and incredible realism and beauty.
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When it comes to food, health and nutrition, there are many myths out there. Some were put out there on purpose to sell you more products, some are just misconceptions that have thrived over the years because, on the surface of it, they sound logical. So let’s set a few things straight: |
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1. Swimming with a full stomach is deadly dangerous.
You may weigh a bit more with the food in you, but you won’t drown, as long as you’re swimming for fun. If you are competing, it may cause some cramping. However, drinking is a very bad idea, as a 1990 study of hundreds of drowning deaths found that 41% were alcohol related.
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2. Eating raw food is healthier than eating food that has been heated up
This one is both right and wrong. It’s true that raw fruit and raw vegetables have more nutritional value than heated. However, not everything is safe to consume raw. For example, raw bens and eggplants may contain toxic materials that evaporate when heated.
So make sure you know for sure that what you are eating raw isn’t actually poisonous if not cooked.
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3. If you want your eye sight to get much better, eat carrots for their vitamin A.
Not quite. Carrots don’t contain vitamin A, they contain beta carotene, which the body may convert to vitamin A. But eating a lot of carrots does not significantly help your eye sight, and beta crotene can be found in lots of yellowish, orange and dark green fruits and vegetables.
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4. Whole milk is more nutritious than is skimmed milk.
Skimmed milk is the healthiest milk. Its fat content is below 0.5% while whole milk has a fat content of over 3.25%. It has all the same nutritional values of whole milk, with the exception of vitamin A, which your body usually has a great supply of. If you want to watch your weight, drink skimmed milk.
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5. Health food is too expensive.
Doesn’t have to be.
Time + Process effort = cost.
Fruits and vegetables aren’t usually very pricey, but here are some ideas to save you on expenses. Grains with long shelf life can be a great investment in your health. Grains like oats, lentils, chickpeas, and brown rice. If you’re buying meat, don’t buy lean cuts but the whole chicken, it’ll be cheaper to just remove the bones and skin yourselves.
Same with beef and just trim the fat yourselves, portion and freeze it. It’s not much work and will save you good money.
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6. Product titles that contain the words ‘Low Fat’ or ‘Reduced Fat’ are better than those that don’t.
Remember that energy = calories.
The fat that is stored in our body is actually untapped energy. This energy doesn’t just come from fat, it comes from carbohydrates and proteins as well. So just because a product says low fat doesn’t mean it’s low on the amount of energy it will store in your body, which will be converted to… you guessed it, fat.
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7. It’s better to just eat all vegetarian foods.
Not necessarily.
There are many processed foods that have very little nutritional value. However, lean red meat is low in fat, so is skinless chicken and fish, when they are cooked without the skin and not in oil.
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8. Food coloring is harmful to the body
By food coloring, we mean any pigment, dye or any other substance that adds color to food. They are used for many reasons, but after many studies have been held, decades ago, they were pronounced completely safe.
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9. Additives and preservatives are unhealthy to eat
Additives are added to food to keep it stable, safe and to slow down it being spoiled so there is no foodborne disease. This is mainly used in foods like cheese or wine using harmless bacteria or yeasys.
Some foods, like ham and bacon, are only safe to eat after preservatives have been used. Ice cream tastes as good as it does due to additives. There is no health risk, and actually most foods look and taste better when these are applied.
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10. Eating after certain hours makes you fat
Many believe that eating after 7 pm will help make you gain weight. The truth is, it’s not when you eat, it’s WHAT you eat. Most people snack after these hours, more than any other time of day. The important thing is to eat at fixed, regular times, at least 2-3 hours before bedtime.
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11. Eating big, full meals 3 times a day is better than eating smaller, frequent meals.
Wrong. Imagine the food you eat as filling a glass. When you eat small meals frequently, the water is consumed whenever you need it. But when you eat only a few large meals a day, you tend to eat more than you need at that point in time, meaning the water fills up the glass and drips off – straight to your fat reserves.
 So eat when you feel hungry, just make sure you eat enough to feel full, no more than that, and slowly enough so that your body has time to register how much you are eating and alert you (with stomach aches) if you eat too much.
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What is a Grain of Sand, Really?
We’re used to seeing grains of sand almost everywhere we go, but what most of us don’t know is that every tiny grain of sand is a jewel, waiting to be discovered. When Dr. Gary Greeneberg first turned his microscope on beach sand, he found gem-like minerals, colorful coral fragements, and microscopic, jewel-like shells that all reveal that sand is much more then just little brown rocks.
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