Congrats to @odweaven for winning our last photography competition! For upcoming competitions, we’re going to run them fortnightly to give us more time to make submissions.

NASA’s Insight rover has detected the largest ever Marsquake, measured at magnitude 5. Data collected from an onboard seismometer will let scientists peer deep into the internal makeup of the planet. 🔗 Link

The emperor penguin is at severe risk of extinction in the next 30 to 40 years as a result of climate change. At the second-largest Emperor penguin colony (the Halley Bay colony in the Weddell Sea), for three years all the chicks died. 🔗 Link

Archaeological research highlights how native peoples across North America’s coasts and Australia harvested huge amounts of seafood without harming ecosystems. They harvested food locally and maintained the ecosystems that provided it. 🔗 Link

Researchers have long suspected that the active ingredient in sunscreen (oxybenzone) was harming corals, but no one knew how. A new study shows that when corals absorb it, the chemical gets converted into a sunlight-activated toxin. The may help us make better “coral-safe” sunscreens. 🔗 Link

🌍 Exploring Our World Sea of Japan where snow and beach and sea meet
Posted by yungandreww

🌻 Plants Lithops are South African plants that have evolved to look like stones
Posted by StcStasi

Oarfish are the longest known living species of bony fish: the largest confirmed specimen measured 26 feet long; the largest unconfirmed one measured 56 feet long and weighed 600 pounds. The oarfish propels itself forward by rhythmically undulating its dorsal fin that runs the length of its body.
Posted by KimCureAll

🌍 Exploring Our World The inside of Raw Velvety Malachite
Posted by Swerwin

🦁 Animals Turtles helping each other in times of need
Posted by mcflymikes

🚀 Space Equatorial Ridge (Saturn’s moon Iapetus), most tallest mountian in our solar system behind Olympus Mons, mount Everest isn’t even top 10.
Posted by egi_berisha123