The Strangest Ship In The World: Become a Research Platform With 30 Minutes

Perhaps you may think for the first time you see this ship as it sinking as the famous ship Titanic, but it is not . this alien ship, which we have not seen a like of it before, can be transformed from an ordinary ship to a research platform within 30 minutes.

Certainly you will wonder, how a ship like this, turns out to be a research platform and to be stable without sinking?? Is not it ...

This exotic ship called Flip and owned by the Office of Naval Research and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego, FLIP ship is a platform for a unique scientific research.

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The Holy Mount Athos, Prohibited Locations Around The World

The Holy Mount Athos is an Orthodox monastic republic, which is located on the same eastern finger of the Halkidiki peninsula in the east of Greece.

It has an autonomous state under Greek sovereignty. The Republic is one of about 2,200 monastic inhabitants and covers 336 square kilometers.

On the peninsula there are 20 large monasteries, which is a UNESCO world heritage. Near the monasteries on Mount Athos there are also the so-called sketes. These are rural settlements where the buildings are laid around a monastic central building.

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Olympus - The Highest Mountain In The Solar System

Olympus (lat. Olympus Mons) - an extinct volcano on Mars, the tallest mountain in the solar system. Before the spacecraft  flight (which showed that the Olympus - the mountain), this place was known to astronomers as Nix Olympica («Snows of Olympus" - due to a higher albedo).

The height of the Mount Olympus reaches  27 miles to its base and 25 km to the average level of the surface of Mars. This is several times higher than the highest mountains on Earth. Olympus extends for 540 km wide and has steep slopes at the edges up to 7 km. The reasons for the formation of these giant cliffs have not yet found a convincing explanation.

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The Galápagos Tortoise , The Giantess Tortoise On Earth

The Galápagos giant tortoise, which is the largest species of turtle in the world, weighing about 400 kilograms and 180 centimeters in length and almost live for more than a hundred years!

The Galapagos giant tortoise lives in the Galapagos Archipelago, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. It lived in the Pacific and Indian Ocean tropical island, a South American west coast of the Galapagos Islands and the Indian Ocean, the Seychelles Islands and Aldabra Island, and more.

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