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29,029 feet above sea level, Mt. Everest is the highest peak on Earth. That doesn't make it closer to the moon, owing to the surface of the earth not being similar in all places. Only very few have been able to reach the peak and come back safe.
The Dead Sea is so low that it is 1,378 feet below sea level. It is located on the border of Jordan and Israel. It is famous for the immense amount of salts present in it making it inhabitable.
At -89.2°C, the Vostok Station on Antarctica recorded the coldest temperature ever on Earth on July 21, 1983. It is an old Soviet Union outpost in the middle of Antarctica.
At 56.6°C, the Death Valley scorched in the heat breaking all records. It was recorded by the World Meteorological Organisation in 1913 as the hottest place officially ever recorded.
Winds blow at such a speed here, especially in winters, that the wind gusts have a speed up to 150 mph. The concentrated flow of freezing air here is known as katabatic wind.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is so dry that in 37 years it has had rainfall only 4 times.
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It receives an annual rainfall of 467 inches!
According to the National Park Service, the Paradise has an annual snowfall of approximately 93.5 feet annually.
Ever since it erupted on the southern part of the island in 1983, Mt. Kilauea has not stopped. It is responsible for having destroyed 200 homes but also has created over 544 acres of land.
Off of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, the Marianas Trench is the deepest point in the ocean with a depth of more than 36,000 feet.
Located in Antarctica, the Bentley Subglacial Trench has 8,383 feet of deep, thick ice. It is also the lowest point on Earth that is not covered by ocean.
The salt flat covers around 4,000 square miles that contain about 10 billion tons of salt.
By Damini Bhattacharya
Feb 02, 2018
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29,029 feet above sea level, Mt. Everest is the highest peak on Earth. That doesn't make it closer to the moon, owing to the surface of the earth not being similar in all places. Only very few have been able to reach the peak and come back safe.
The Dead Sea is so low that it is 1,378 feet below sea level. It is located on the border of Jordan and Israel. It is famous for the immense amount of salts present in it making it inhabitable.
At -89.2°C, the Vostok Station on Antarctica recorded the coldest temperature ever on Earth on July 21, 1983. It is an old Soviet Union outpost in the middle of Antarctica.
At 56.6°C, the Death Valley scorched in the heat breaking all records. It was recorded by the World Meteorological Organisation in 1913 as the hottest place officially ever recorded.
Winds blow at such a speed here, especially in winters, that the wind gusts have a speed up to 150 mph. The concentrated flow of freezing air here is known as katabatic wind.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is so dry that in 37 years it has had rainfall only 4 times.
It receives an annual rainfall of 467 inches!
According to the National Park Service, the Paradise has an annual snowfall of approximately 93.5 feet annually.
Ever since it erupted on the southern part of the island in 1983, Mt. Kilauea has not stopped. It is responsible for having destroyed 200 homes but also has created over 544 acres of land.
Off of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, the Marianas Trench is the deepest point in the ocean with a depth of more than 36,000 feet.
Located in Antarctica, the Bentley Subglacial Trench has 8,383 feet of deep, thick ice. It is also the lowest point on Earth that is not covered by ocean.
The salt flat covers around 4,000 square miles that contain about 10 billion tons of salt.
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