This American Penny is special because not only is it over 100 years old, it is also covered in alien dust! The penny, which was first released into circulation in 1909, was a special edition in honor of Lincoln’s 100th birthday and last year it was sent on a journey to Mars on board the rover “Curiosity”. The reason for the penny’s unusual journey is actually symbolic as it represents the geologists’ tradition of using a penny as a way of referencing scale in scientific specimens. This picture was taken by the rover’s MAHLI camera and is one of many images captured and beamed back to earth over the past year. So, this is what a penny looks like after being on Mars for 411 days.
Danish born, Nicolai Frederik Bonnén Rossen is a 26 year old freelance photographer and publisher. His passion for travel led him to Botswana on assignment for a Denmark newspaper called Børsen where he spent two weeks living in a tent not far from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Here are some of the incredible photographs that document his time in the wild.
The “Guidelines for Civilized Travel Abroad” was released by the Chinese Tourism board as a way of educating the local population as to specific travel etiquette. Here are some of the strangest tips that appeared in the manual.
This house was built as the Bates home for Alfred Hitchcock’s horror film “Psycho”. It was built as a two-walled exterior façade as it was would only be filmed from a vantage point but it was also appeared in many other films, TV shows and advertisements since then.
In 2011, the town of Namie in the Futaba District was hit by an earthquake and tsunami. A short time later, following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, it became a nuclear evacuation zone. Now it is neglected and considered a ghost town.