Cassini: Saturn On May 21st 2016. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Juno: Jupiter and the Galilean moons from 10.9 million km away, June 21st 2016. The probe will enter orbit around Jupiter on July 4th. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Gold

Locality: Sierra de la Chimenea, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain

Fluorite

Locality: Zogno Mine, Brembana Valley, Lombardy, Italy

Dark Blue Azurite on Limonite

Locality:  Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco.

Mimetite

Locality: Filón Sur, Tharsis, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain

Very strange things happen to your body if you spend a year in space

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth Tuesday night after spending almost a year in space.

But his 340 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS) haven’t been all fun and games.

Our bodies evolved on Earth, so they’re not built for weightlessness — which is exactly why NASA plans to use Kelly to study the long-term effects of spaceflight the human body.

forest

Blick vom Rande des Tiefenbacher Moos auf die Hörnerkette - Berge (Ofterschwanger Horn, Sigiswanger Horn, Rangiswanger Horn). Allgäu, Bayern.

By Thorsten Nunnemann

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Scheelite with Pink Apatite on Muscovite

Locality: Mt Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China.