Amid the coronavirus pandemic that has plunged the world into disarray, here are some rare and interesting photos about our world to spice up your day.

1. What A Cleaned Heart Looks Like

A cleaned heart is obtained by washing away all donor cells until you’re left with a protein scaffold. This ghost heart is ready to be injected with a transplant recipient’s stem cells so a new heart – one that won’t be rejected – can be grown.

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2. Grains Of Salt Under Electron Microscope
Salt crystals are cubic, but some grains when observed appear to be made up of overlapping cubes. This ionic compound is made up of sodium and chloride atoms. When a number of these molecules join to form a crystal they will often arrange themselves in a cubic pattern.

3. What A Tiger’s Skin Looks Like When It’s Shaved
Each tiger has a unique pattern of stripes which are ideal for the camouflage needs of the animal.

“Interestingly, the skin of the tiger is also striped beneath the patterned fur,” say Tigers.org. “The darkness of the pigmentation of the skin seems to be directly related to the darkness of the fur.”

4. You Can See Every Organ In The Glass Frog


Reticulated glass frogs are found in the rain forests of Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador. The skin on their underside is completely transparent which allows for you to see their internal organs and even their beating heart. Scientists still don’t know the evolutionary reason behind their see-through skin, but think the pattern on their backs are meant to resemble eggs and confuse predators.

5. What’s Under A Reporter’s Back?


This journalist has a receiver for the In-Ear piece which allows her to hear the team and a transmitter that is used for her clip-on microphone, both meticulously fastened to her dress in a way viewers wouldn’t notice anything.

Interesting

6. The Dark Side Of The Moon Passing In Front Of The Earth, Captured From One Million Miles Away


A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured a unique view of the Moon as it passed between the spacecraft and Earth. A series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the Moon that is not visible from Earth.

7. While Actors Are Busy Performing, The Real Driver Is On Top Of The Car


In the movie Baby Driver, the red Subaru WRX becomes the star of the show as it weaves in and out of lanes, fits through imperceptible gaps between bumper-to-bumper traffic, jumps barriers, and skids around obstacles like a lucky drunk on ice. Edgar Wright, the writer and director of the movie, brought together a team of experts to coordinate incredibly complicated chases that he was determined to shoot on location in Atlanta. He estimates that 95 percent of the movie was shot in-camera, with CGI utilized for just a few touch-ups and quick shots.

8. Microbes Left Behind From The Handprint Of An 8-Year-Old Boy After Playing Outside


But before you freak out and lock yourself inside, remember that most germs won’t harm you. Your immune system protects you against infectious agents. And growing up in ‘natural’ environments help kids develop a balanced immune response.

9. What A Salt Mine Looks Like From The Inside


Before engines and earth-moving equipments were invented, mining salt was one of the most expensive and dangerous things to do.

While salt is now plentiful, until the Industrial Revolution it was difficult to come by, and salt mining was often done by slaves or prison labor and life expectancy among those sentenced was low.

In Roman times, salt on the table was a mark of wealth; so valuable was this resource that soldier’s pay was originally in salt. This is where the word ‘salary’ comes from.

10. The Inside Of A Space Suit


Here are some interesting facts about spacesuits, according to NASA:

1. A spacesuit weighs approximately 280 pounds on the ground – without the astronaut in it. In the microgravity environment of space, a spacesuit weighs nothing.

2. Putting on a spacesuit takes 45 minutes, including the time it takes to put on the special undergarments that help keep astronauts cool. After putting on the spacesuit, to adapt to the lower pressure maintained in the suit, the astronaut must spend a little more than an hour breathing pure oxygen before going outside the pressurized module.

3. The reason that spacesuits are white is because white reflects heat in space the same as it does here on Earth. Temperatures in direct sunlight in space can be more than 275 degrees Fahrenheit.

4. No difference exists in a male’s or female’s suit, though the female astronaut usually requires a smaller size.

5. The shuttle spacesuit was designed to be made of many interchangeable parts, to accommodate the large number of astronauts with widely varying body sizes. These parts (upper and lower torsos, arms, etc.) are made in different sizes.

6. The body measurements of each shuttle astronaut are taken and recorded. Then the measurements are plotted against the size ranges available for each spacesuit component. The suit components are then assembled. Training suits are usually assembled nine months prior to flight, and flight suits are usually assembled four months prior to flight.

11. This Is What An Elephant’s Tail Looks Like Up Close


Elephant’s tails have a few uses. For example elephants can use their tails to communicate with each other; much like a dog, a swishing or wagging tail can signify happiness or excitement.

Baby elephants sometimes hold on to the tail of older animals while they are walking, for guidance and security on long walks. The tail full of hair also works as a flyswatter, to help keep away those annoying and biting flies.

12. Picture Of A Single Atom That Won Science Photo Contest


This awe-inspiring photo shows an atom as a speck of light sat between two metal electrodes about 2mm (0.078in) apart. The photo titled a “Single Atom in an Ion Trap” was shot by David Nadlinger, a student at the University of Oxford. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the UK awarded the photo with the top prize in its national science photography competition. “In the center of the picture, a small white dot is visible – a single positively-charged strontium atom. It is held nearly motionless by electric fields emanating from the metal electrodes surrounding it. When illuminated by a laser of the right blue-violet color, the atom absorbs and re-emits light particles sufficiently quickly for an ordinary camera to capture it in a long exposure photograph,” reads the photo caption.

13. What An Eclipse Looks Like From Space


This photo was uploaded onto the Astronomy Picture of the Day and shows the shadow of the Moon darkening part of the Earth. It was taken by crew on the former Mir space station and it is estimated that the shadow moved across the Earth at nearly 2000 kilometers per hour.

“Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse – others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon,” APOD explained. “This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station. The two bright spots that appear on the upper left are possibly Jupiter and Saturn, although this has yet to be proven. Mir was deorbited in a controlled re-entry in 2001.”

14. What The Verdun Battlefield Looks Like Now


This peaceful looking site was where the longest battle of the First World War was fought. The Battle of Verdun was fought between German and French troops on the hills of North-Eastern France and lasted from the 21st of February to the 18th of December 1916, a total of 303 days. The concentration of so much fighting in such a small area devastated the land, resulting in miserable conditions for troops on both sides. Rain, combined with the constant tearing up of the ground turned the clay of the area to a wasteland of mud full of human remains. Shell craters filled, becoming so slippery that troops who fell into them or took cover in them could drown. Forests were reduced to tangled piles of wood by constant artillery-fire and eventually obliterated. In 2000, Hannes Heer and K. Naumann calculated 377,231 French and 337,000 German casualties, a total of 714,231, an average of 70,000 a month. Although the Germans were held from taking Verdun itself, who won the battle is a question not all historians answer the same.

15. Sniper’s Nest At A Sporting Event


How does it feel to be at a major sports event or concert, knowing that a sniper could have his rifle trained on you at any given moment? More safe? Or less?

These guys are here to make sure that if someone does go beserk and undertakes a terrorist attack, they are in a position to stop it as quickly as possible. Sadly, this is just the world we live in.

16. How Chinese Soldiers Keep Their Posture


The Officers of the People Paramilitary Police were not playing around when it came to their training for the Beijing Olympics. The force underwent rigorous drills to ensure that they could hold the perfect posture which included pins in their collars and crosses on their backs.

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