European Space Agency; Situated in the central region of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh serves as the nation’s legislative, financial, administrative, diplomatic and commercial hub, home to over seven million inhabitants. Covering an area of around 1550 sq km, the city sits at approximately 600 m above sea level on the eastern part of the Najd plateau in the Arabian Peninsula. Like much of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh has a desert climate with extreme summer temperatures that can…
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Have you seen today's launch from the #Baikonur cosmodrome ⁉️ No? We present a replay of the launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle 🚀 pic.twitter.com/h9NBaDkMB6 — РОСКОСМОС (@roscosmos) July 13, 2019
A post shared by Paul Nicklen (@paulnicklen) on Dec 5, 2017 at 8:52am PST Photographer Paul Nicklen; It’s a soul-crushing scene that still haunts me, but I know we need to share both the beautiful and the heartbreaking if we are going to break down the walls of apathy. This is what starvation looks like. The muscles atrophy. No energy. It’s a slow, painful death. When scientists say polar bears will be extinct in the…