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.

The length of the volcanic caldera of Olympus - 85 km, width - 60 km. The depth of the caldera reaches 3 km due to the presence of six volcanic craters. For comparison - the largest in the world with Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the diameter of the crater is 6.5 km.

The atmospheric pressure at the top of Mount Olympus is only 2% of the pressure characteristic of the average Martian surface (for comparison - the pressure on the summit of Everest is 25% of that at sea level).

Olympus is a large area so that it can not be seen entirely from the planet's surface (the distance required for viewing the volcano, is so great that it will be hidden by the curvature of the surface). Therefore, a complete view of Olympus can be seen only from the air or the orbit. Similarly, if you stand on the highest point of the volcano, its slope goes beyond the horizon.

A Holiday In One Of The Croatian Islands

Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia is a unitary state and a democratic parliamentary republic in southeastern Europe at the crossroads of Central Europe and the Balkans, bordering the Adriatic Sea, which is an extension of the Mediterranean Sea and it has more than a thousand of islands .. Croatia was one of the republics of the Yugoslav federation until its independence in 1991. Today Croatia is a candidate country for accession to the European Union.

Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 provinces plus the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers an area of ​​56,594 square kilometers (21,851 square miles), and Croatia borders with Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro Ogmehoria. The official language in Croatia is Croatian, one of the Slavic languages ​​and is the official currency (kuna).

Croatia's climate varied between the continental climate predominates in the Mediterranean climate. The country has a population of 4,290,000 people, mostly Croats, most of them condemning the Romanian Catholic. 

Stara Baška

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Stara Baška

Bol

Brela

Brela

Hvar

Kornati

Lošinj

Mljet

Murter

Nugal

Omiš

Stiniva, Vis

Stončica Bay, Vis

Tučepi

Zadar

The Crooked Trees, The Mysterious Forest In Poland

In the corner of a small forest located west of Poland consists of 400 unique pine tree, where its trunks are all grown crooked at an angle of 90 degrees, all bent northward. The age of the exotic trees is about 72 , where it was planted in 1930 to grow for 7 or 10 years and then stop after that its growth!

It's Believed that these trees have been planted and engineered in some way to grow in this way and it seems that the man who plated them was stopped by the Second World War for harvesting unique experience! But what the purpose of cultivation? No one knows to this day!

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.

The mating season is from December to August, the females come to lay their eggs from the cooler high altitudes in the warmer coastal areas. The nesting season begins in late June and lasts until November. 4-17 eggs are laid with weights 80-150 g is the incubation period of up to 250 days. The hatching weight of the pups is about 60-100 g can be up to one month left in the nest box until they dig together usually after a rain, to the surface.

Prohibited Locations Around The World, Ağdam - Ruined City

The Azerbaijani Agdam was founded in the middle of the 18th Century. In 1968 the city was have about 18,000 inhabitants, whose number grew in 1989 to almost 30,000.

The great misfortune for Agdam began in part of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, a dispute between the states of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh in the Caucasus.

In July 1993, the city was occupied by Armenian troops. Since then Agdam was part of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Nagorno Karabakh.

During the conflict, fled the inhabitants of Agdam in other parts of Azerbaijan.

According to reports, the houses have been destroyed after the conquest by the troops of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh to make the refugees return impossible.

Since that, become Agdam as a ghost town. In subsequent years, the decline was exacerbated by looting.

Agdam serves as a buffer zone between the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan. That means no one is allowed to visit her town, it falls more and more.

A Treasure Of Ancient Coins Found In Britain

Two of the amateur research on the ruins in Britain found a treasure of gold and silver coins, which is the largest of its kind in Europe, dating back more than two thousand years and an estimated value of between 3 to 10 million pounds.

Researchers Reg Mead and Richard Mills found a treasure of 30 to 50 thousand pieces, according to the newspaper "Independent" of London, while excavating in the field of village Jrfil, east of the island of Jersey ,one of the British Channel Islands front to the north of France. In the opinion of researchers that currency, which range in value for each of them between 100 to 200 pounds were used in 50 BC by the sons of the tribe, "Kruasiliti" and they were forced to bury it in the island before the invasion of the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar.