PIX4676173: Ojos del Salado - Chile: Nevado Ojos del Salado rises at 6,893 metres above sea level in the south of the Atacama Desert, on the border between Argentina and Chile. It is the highest volcano in the world; it is considered active. August 2014. Nevado Ojos del Salado is the highest volcano in the world, almost 7000m tall (6893m). It is at the border between Argentina and Chile. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4669572: A ring of rocks and dust is orbiting the Earth. The massive continent below is Pangee and the ocean to the west is Panthalassa. This is what Earth was supposed to look like at the end of Permian, about 260 million years ago, before the first dinosaurs appeared. This ring around the Earth was of earthly origin, constitutes debris thrown into orbit by collision with a meteorite or comet. Over time, these debris have fallen or fallen to Earth in a meteorite rain - A dusty ring arc orbits four thousand miles above Earth's equator. The massive continent below is Pangea and the ocean to the west is Panthalassa. This is how the Earth may have appeared during the end of the Permian period, a time just prior to the appearance of the dinosaurs, when continental drift was pulling Pangea apart into the seven continents we know today - 260 million years ago the Earth may have been host to ring arcs similar to the incomplete rings that currently circumscribe the planet Neptune . Unlike Neptune's rings, the ring arcs around the Earth were of terrestrial origin, debris thrown into orbit by a collision with a large meteorite or comet. The debris consisted of tiny pebbles that were once molten droplets of ejecta, long since cooled in the vacuum of space. The orbit of the ring arc would eventually decay, returning the debris back to Earth as a shower of meteorites. This debris is found on Earth's surface today in the form of dark, glassy objects known as tektites.: La Terre à la fin du Permien - Ring arcs over the Permian Earth / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639848: Mars Exploration-Illustration - Martian Explorers - Men's exploration of Mars will require vehicles that can take a crew long distances and provide them with all the necessary protection against this hostile environment. Here, astronauts perform an extravehicular exit to take samples. Explorers don pressure suits and leave the safety of their climate-controlled motor home to examine an outcrop of sedimentary rock on a martian dune field / Bridgeman Images
MEP4787248: A large banner exalts Georges Pompidou and the solidarity between institutions and students at a demonstration of the supporters of Charles de Gaulle in Place de l'Etoile (Champs Elysees), after the decision of the President of the French Republic to dissolve the National Assembly. The Gaullists wish the end of the social tensions by claiming democracy to solve institutions crisis and the validity of the last trade unions statements. Paris (France), May 30, 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images