Amazing picture thread

[Luigi]

Mind blowing...

^


Well at least I can also see where Kamloops is 555

I read that if you hold up a grain of sand to the nightsky, the area that it blocks holds 10,000 galaxies.


Just don't quote me on that.

[Latindancer]

Saturn's hexagon is pretty amazing :




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon


Bizarre Giant Hexagon on Saturn May Finally Be Explained

[Cujo]

The north pole vortex of Jupiter, photo taken by the recently arrived Juno probe. The earth copied in for size.

Holy smokes.

[kmart]

"You lead, Dear".

[BaitongBoy]

^ Wonderful...

[bobo746]

Stakna monastery catches the evening light near Leh, the largest town in the region of Ladakh, nestled high in the Indian Himalayas

[bobo746]

Fire and smoke rise after a Saudi-led airstrike hit a site believed to be one of the largest weapons depots on the outskirts of Yemen's capital, Sanaa

[bobo746]

Palouse region of Washington State

[bobo746]

"Pacific Storm." A colossal cumulonimbus flashes over the Pacific Ocean as we circle around it at 37,000 feet en route to South America

[bobo746]

American Tim Laman wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016

[bobo746]

[Cujo]

^ Nice. I can feel winter coming.

[Maanaam]

"Pacific Storm." A colossal cumulonimbus flashes over the Pacific Ocean as we circle around it at 37,000 feet en route to South America

Wow. You took that? Very cool.

[Luigi]

Wow. You took that? Very cool.

[bobo746]

^^ Yeah mate out the window of my Gulfstream Jet while getting a polish from Tera Patrick.

[Luigi]

Some clowns have all the luck.

[BaitongBoy]

Polish sausage?...Heh...

[BaitongBoy]

as we circle around it at 37,000 feet en route to South America

To be fair, it sounds like bobo was "driving"...

[David48atTD]

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[bobo746]

The Awesomeness of Earth from Above




22·182760°, 55·134184° Rub’ al Khali, or The Empty Quarter, is the largest sand desert in the world. It covers 650,000 square kilometers (251,000 square miles), and includes parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates. In the center of the desert there are a number of raised, hardened formations that were once the sites of shallow lakes, thousands of years ago. For a sense of scale, this Overview shows approximately 350 square kilometers (135 square miles) in Saudi Arabia, near the border with Oman




1.237656°, 103.806422° Cargo ships and tankers—some weighing up to 300,000 tons—wait outside the entry to the Port of Singapore. The facility is the world’s second-busiest port in terms of total tonnage, shipping a fifth of the world’s cargo containers and half of the world’s annual supply of crude oil



37·818672°, –122·478708° The Golden Gate Bridge is a 2·7-kilometer-long (1·7-mile) suspension bridge in San Francisco, California, that spans the Golden Gate Strait–the channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The bridge’s signature color, known as "international orange," was selected to complement its natural surroundings and enhance its visibility in fog.



–23.362130°, 119.669422° The Mount Whaleback Iron Ore Mine is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia



–22.288964°, –68.896753° Chuquicamata is the largest open‑pit copper mine in the world. Located in the Antofagasta Region of Chile

[Cujo]

[bobo746]

Santa Claus live there ?

[BaitongBoy]

Lived there once...Similar...Very cozy...

[Maanaam]

Wow. You took that? Very cool.

"A colossal cumulonimbus flashes over the Pacific Ocean as we circle around it at 37,000 feet"

Silly little man.

[bobo746]

Photos of Halloween 2016

Galway, Ireland




Sydney, Australia



Cali, Colombia,



Kawasaki, Japan



Singapore