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Visiting the island of Socotra in Yemen can seem like you’re on another planet. More than 30% of the island’s plant life, including the dragon blood tree that bleeds bright red sap when it’s cut, isn’t found anywhere else on earth. Source Source 2

Autograph notes on the satellites of Jupiter (14–25 January 1611).

‘On this scrap of paper (an unfolded envelope), Galileo recorded the positions of four satellites of Jupiter over a period of several nights. He had observed the moons with the aid of his newly constructed telescope and published his findings in his revolutionary book The Starry Messenger (1610)‘

Curiosity’s Ancient Wet Mars Adventure

Long-distance-moving pebbles and mountains growing out of lake deposits – this was the Mars of several billion years ago, showing extensive evidence of liquid water shaping the landscape.

While hard to imagine when looking at images of the dust-swept Martian landscape of today, NASA’s Curiosity rover has gathered a lot of information showing how the rocks were shaped and formed by liquid water.