A mysterious and beautiful planet Earth is fraught with many secrets.
It is believed that our planet formed about 4,54 billion years ago from a large cloud of interstellar dust and gas.
Earth is the only known to man at the moment, the object in the Universe inhabited by living organisms. The earth is home to millions of different species of living beings, including humans. A clear answer about the existence of life on other planets, science currently can not give.
It is possible that we never solve all the mysteries of our and other planets. But on Earth there are places that certainly would have liked and the inhabitants of other worlds.
See alien landscapes of our wonderful planet.
1. Shark Bay (Shark Bay) in Western Australia.
85% of the entire history of planet Earth was inhabited only by microbes. The only evidence of this are the products of the activity of cyanobacteria — stromatolites. Most often stromatolites can be found in extremely salty waters. And live specimens, which have survived until now, can be found in shark Bay.
2. Shark Bay with its unique ecosystem, listed in the world heritage list of UNESCO.
3. Yellowstone national Park.
What does the color of water in this hot spring so beautiful? Life, that’s what!
Water is such an unusual colour under the influence of extremophiles. They are living beings, which need extreme environmental conditions or that it is well adapted.
4. Lassen volcanic national Park in California.
Hell on Earth or Bumpass Hell is hydrothermally land, underground water which is heated by hot magma to very high temperatures. Despite this, live in the water some microorganisms. The Mars Rover Spirit on Mars has found minerals, which indicates that on Mars there was the same hydrothermal environment as in Bumpass Hell.
5. River Tinto in southwest Spain.
Increased acidity of water and high content of iron oxides gave the river this unearthly, Martian. For most organisms such an environment is lethal, but in the river inhabited by living organisms — extremophiles, including algae and fungi.
6. Simba the lake is situated at an altitude 5872 m in the Chilean Andes.
The volcanic lakes still remain the most mysterious objects on Earth. Red lake give floating close to the surface of the water algae. They contain special pigments to protect against high UV radiation. Scientists believe that these lakes existed on Mars 3.5 billion years ago.
7. Mono lake in California.
The water is 2-3 times saltier than the ocean, and the high content of calcium carbonate gave the lake a mystical otherworldly look.
8. Glacier on Ellesmere island in Canada.
The water that flows from the upper part of the glacier, similar to a chemical compound with high sulfur content. However, it has been found living microorganisms. Studies of these glaciers astrobiologists use with a view of studying potential life on Jupiter’s moons.
9. Underwater caves, or “blue hole” in Bahamas.
It is believed that more than a billion years the Earth’s oceans lacked oxygen. In marine rocks, which date back billions of years, preserved the fossil remains of a purple bacteria, which in photosynthesis is not isolated oxygen, as modern plants, and sulfur. Currently, the study of these bacteria do astrobiologists.
