Prof. Ken Sims of the University of Wyoming looking over a lava crater at Mount Nyiragongo. Lava from this volcano is a window into the center of the Earth, and surprisingly tells us about a global system that keeps life here safe from the Sun?s deadly radiation.
Kamchatka, Eastern Russia - The sun begins to rise behind an active volcano in far Eastern-Russia. Sometimes known as the ?Land of Ice and Fire?, the Kamchatka peninsula is home to the greatest concentration and diversity of Salmonid fish on Earth.
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Expedition Leader Aldo Kane and Prof. Ken Sims, of the University of Wyoming, on an expedition to collect lava samples from Mount Nyiragongo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lava from this volcano is a window into the center of the Earth, and surprisingly tells us about a global system that keeps life here safe from the Sun?s deadly radiation.
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Enshi, Hubei, CHINA - The magnificent limestone towers, known as karst formations, rise out of the mist in Enshi Grand Canyon National Park, China. The limestone that makes up these incredible pinnacles is made up of bits of shell, coral and other dead sea life? it?s the compacted skeletons of ancient ocean inhabitants.
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Enshi, Hubei, CHINA - The magnificent limestone towers, known as karst formations, rise out of the mist in Enshi Grand Canyon National Park, China. The limestone that makes up these incredible pinnacles is made up of bits of shell, coral and other dead sea life? it?s the compacted skeletons of ancient ocean inhabitants.
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A snake stares down the camera at Farm Studios - animals feature throughout the series to represent the biodiversity of life on Earth.
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Die Soyuz Trägerrakete wurde sicher an die Startrampe in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan gebracht. An Board werden ein Kosmonaut und zwei Astronauten im Zuge der ISS Expedition 50 sein, darunter auch Astronautin Peggy Whitson.
Kamchatka, Eastern Russia - A bear cub learns to fish by catching the weak and dying Salmon in the lakes margins. To hibernate through the winter, the bears must gain enough weight by eating Salmon in the summer months to survive.
Kautokeino, NORWAY - The frozen expanse of Kautokeino in Norway, where beneath the thick frozen blanket of snow, something surprising grows and helps sustain life.
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Kautokeino, NORWAY - The frozen expanse of Kautokeino in Norway, where beneath the thick frozen blanket of snow, something surprising grows and helps sustain life.
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Spiti Valley, Northern India - Nawang Jinpa, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, sits in the remote Komic Monastery, over 15,000ft above sea level. Nawang Jinpa will work with seven other monks, over several days, to build a complex emblematic painting from sand. This sand mandala, as it is called, will then be destroyed as a unique symbol of the impermanence of life.
A wolf stares down the camera at Farm Studios - animals feature throughout the series to represent the biodiversity of life on Earth.
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Spiti Valley, Northern India - Colored sand and tools are laid out on in preparation for the making of a Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala. The mandala will be an intricate painting made from sand, which will take several days to be completed before being destroyed. It is a form of Buddhist meditation and symbolic of the exquisite impermanence of life.
Die Zwillinge Claudia und Marina Rovira Blanquez sollen dieses Jahr die Spitze des menschlichen Turms in der Tarraco Arena Placa in Tarragona, Spanien bilden
SchutzschildProf. Ken Sims of the University of Wyoming looking over a lava crater at Mount Nyiragongo. Lava from this volcano is a window into the center of the Earth, and surprisingly tells us about a global system that keeps life here safe from the Sun?s deadly radiation.Bild: © NatGeo
