What do you guys think, could this really be two whales off the coast of California? Looks pretty convincing to me!

Thanks to Tara Wells. (Very sneaky Tara, but it worked! )

This is Waw an Namus, a 1200 metre extinct volcano in the Sahara desert, Libya. The volcano itself is surrounded by a huge area of deposited ash which stands out strikingly against the desert sands. Zoom in closer to see some spectacular colours.

You can really see which way the prevailing wind blows around here, huh?

A couple of hundred kilometres to the north you can see an absolutely vast basaltic lava flow field, known as Djebel Haroudj. If you take a broader look at the area, I think you can still make out the path the lava took from the volcano to it’s final destination.

I couldn’t find an entry for this in Wikipedia, but this page has some good stuff.

Thanks: Leonard Richardson, Mikhail, Adriaan Bos, Manny Mouse, Mike S, pfly and Lauri Kangas.

A corn maze announcing the annual Iowa – Iowa State football game just East of Ames, Iowa. The image is on its side but you should be able to see the University of Iowa’s ‘Herky the Hawk’ to the right and Iowa State University’s ‘Cy’ tornado-thing to the left. Below is the date of the game – Sept 13, 2003.

Thanks: Adam Sachs, Brian Messenger & Marc Armstrong

Here you can see the unmistakable ‘noses’ of a couple of Japanese Shinkansen Super Express trains, although you might know these better as ‘Bullet Trains’. Their nickname is well deserved however, as they regularly run at speeds of 300 kilometres (185 miles) per hour… and they actually plan to increase that speed to 360 km/h!

Woah, that’s a whole heap faster than Scotrail ever gets

Can anyone find one of the Doctor Yellow trains which they use for testing the tracks? They shouldn’t be that difficult to spot (being that they’re bright yellow) but there’s only ever been 5 of them, and they generally only run at night…

There’s loads of really interesting stuff about this incredible feat of engineering over at Wikipedia.

Thanks to Flo, and me

An alien monolith perhaps? Or just some rather interesting stitching? Pretty cool looking though

Thanks to Kristian.