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Untitled © Peter Solarz

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Where do you cop? Carl Bretzke

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Dusk City, Shinjuku 新宿

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2026 January 20

Io in True Color Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Galileo Project

Explanation: The strangest moon in the Solar System is bright yellow. The featured picture, an attempt to show how Io would appear in the “true colors” perceptible to the average human eye, was taken in 1999 July by the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. Io’s colors derive from sulfur and molten silicate rock. The unusual surface of Io is kept very young by its system of active volcanoes. The intense tidal gravity of Jupiter stretches Io and damps wobbles caused by Jupiter’s other Galilean moons. The resulting friction greatly heats Io’s interior, causing molten rock to explode through the surface. Io’s volcanoes are so active that they are effectively turning the whole moon inside out. Some of Io’s volcanic lava is so hot it glows in the dark.

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Vallirana, Cataluna, Spain

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Down the road wave © Peter Solarz

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Pink moss garden.

Saitama, Japan.

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Venus just lost its last active spacecraft, as Japan has officially declared the Akatsuki orbiter - which took the clearest ever picture of the planet, as seen below - dead