Eye of Sahara
Also known as the “Richat structure”, it is located in Mauritania, the largest desert in the world today, in the southwest of the Sahara desert in Africa. Its diameter reaches 48 kilometers and is clearly visible in space. At first, the terrain was thought to be formed by the impact of meteorites. At present, geologists think that it may be caused by the rise of geological structure or erosion. The formation of this ring shape is still a mystery.
Ball’s Pyramid Island
The pyramid island of Bair is the highest sea erosion pillar in the world, with a height of 562 meters. It is located in the southeast of Lord Howe Island in the Pacific Ocean. It is the remnant of shield volcano, formed about 7 million years ago.
Ice Canyon
Located in Greenland, this ice Valley is eroded by water from melting ice and snow. It looks very beautiful and has a depth of about 150 feet.
Crooked forest Poland
This is a “crooked forest” located outside the Nowe czarnowo area in Western Pomerania, Poland. It can be seen from the picture that the pine branches in this forest are crooked. It is understood that this pine was planted here in 1939, but whether its bending is man-made or natural is still unknown.
Ice methane bubble
The microbes in the lake bottom consume organic matter to produce methane bubbles. In summer, the bubbles rise to the lake surface or flow in the lake. In winter, they are frozen in the lake water, which will produce the picture below. Remember not to smoke while watching.
Calcified lake, Tanzania
Photographer Nick Bronte published a series of gloomy and horrible photos of the lake on the Internet. The photo was taken from the lake of natron in northern Tanzania, Africa. The lake also has a horrible name – Soul breaking lake. Why does it have such a horrible name? It turns out that the animals here will become “stones”. Here, the temperature in the lake can reach 60 ° C, and the water is salty. All animals entering the lake end up dead. Many dead birds and bats can be found here, so it has become a death trap for animals. It calcifies any animal trying to enter its waters.
Danish Black Sun
In the spring of Denmark, millions of European starlings gather to form huge and complex shapes in the sky.
It’s the ice vortex
In Hokkaido, Japan, there has been a huge ice vortex with a diameter of 30 kilometers. It needs to be photographed by plane or satellite to see the whole picture. It is a rare scene because thousands of small pieces of ice drift with the current vortex.
Volcanic eruption
Volcanic eruption is one of the most important natural disasters on earth. As the name implies, it is a kind of lightning phenomenon caused by volcanic eruption. Such lightning is only about one meter long and lasts for several milliseconds. It is often a flash of lightning. It was not until nearly ten years that human beings confirmed its existence with the aid of instruments.
In recent years, people have observed volcanic lightning, including the eruption of Wisteria volcano in Chile in 2008, the eruption of Icelandic volcano in 2011 and the eruption of Japanese volcano. Photographers record this gorgeous moment through long exposure. In fact, it is impossible to have so many lightning in a moment.
Antelope Canyon
Located in the north of Arizona, Antelope Canyon is one of the top ten geological wonders. It is divided into two parts: the Upper Antelope Canyon and the Lower Antelope Canyon. This peculiar terrain makes the light here beautiful and strange. Some parts of the valley bottom can only be exposed to sunlight at noon.
The canyon used to be the habitat of pronghorn antelope. Antelope often roamed in the valley, so it was named “Antelope Canyon”. It is also an Indian reserve. Until now, some old Navajo people still meditate here to complete the communication with the spirit of the earth.
Fire fall
The fire fall refers to the 2000 foot high waterfall with orange light in the setting sun, just like the lava pouring down the cliff, which is one of the most famous natural wonders, “fire fall”.
It’s an optical effect formed by sunlight at a certain angle on the waterfall. This landscape is only possible to be seen in two weeks at the end of February every year.
Pictures of fire falls are extremely rare, and many photographers often take years to get a picture.
There are two reasons for the difficulty of shooting:
1. The formation of waterfall. The source of the waterfall is the melting water of the snow mountain on the chieftain rock, while the snow on the chieftain rock generally melts in January every year. By the end of February, the waterfall was probably dead.
2. The angle of the sun. The sun must completely cover the waterfall. The sun at this angle only appears in February. Unfortunately, it happens to be the most unpredictable month in Yosemite National Park. If there are clouds in the sky, the “fire waterfall” will become a “water waterfall”.
Lake Maracaibo
Lake Maracaibo, the mouth of the katantombo River in Venezuela, has the largest and longest lasting lightning on earth.
There are 260 thunderstorms in a year, which take place 10 hours a day, 280 times an hour, and 1.2 million times a year.
The arc formed by lightning in the night sky is extremely shocking, with a length of 5 kilometers and a strength of 400000 amperes. Therefore, it is also known as lightning storm lake.
Its thunderstorm level is so strong that it can be seen as far as 400 kilometers away. Therefore, in the past hundreds of years, many ships sailing in the local area will regard it as the “Lighthouse” to guide the direction.
Underwater waterfall
Located not far from the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, the underwater waterfall is hidden below the sea level and almost invisible to the naked eye. Its huge drop can reach 3500 meters, 4 times higher than the world’s largest waterfall, anhel waterfall, which is a real underwater wonder.
Here, 5 billion liters of sea water pour down from the cliff every second, which is equivalent to pouring 25 Amazon Rivers into the sea in one second, forming a waterfall about 200 meters wide. Scientists used to sink here to measure the current meter. Obviously, the current meter was damaged by the huge amount of water, but it is precisely because of this that people found the existence of the underwater waterfall.
Izhen volcano
Izhen volcano in Indonesia, the lava it erupts is all blue! Imagine a 5-meter-high flame flickering in the night sky. It’s so cool.
There is a lot of sulfur in the gas emitted by the volcano. Under high pressure, sulfur and air ignite, and the flame generated is blue. That’s why Yizhen volcano emits blue lava.
The death ice column
The death ice column is a kind of natural phenomenon in the sea area of the north and south pole of the earth. Because of the low temperature, the salt in the sea water is separated out, the sea water is frozen and spreads to the sea bottom in the shape of a column, and the creatures everywhere are frozen to death. In short: the cold sea is frozen!
The death icicle is extremely rare. It was first discovered by human beings in the 1960s, but limited to photographic equipment and technology, there is no image data to record the situation at that time. Until 2013, the BBC recorded the whole process of the formation of the death icicle for the first time.
Flying saucer clouds
Flying saucer clouds, known as lenticular clouds, often appear when humid air passes over mountains, because they look like flying saucers and are often misunderstood as aliens visiting the earth.
Lenticular clouds are very rare. They usually only form at a height of more than 7000 meters. At the same time, mountains are an indispensable factor. On earth, there are only a few mountains of this height. In 2015, podlike clouds appeared over the UK.
Falling ice crystal
When the weather is very cold and the sun just rises or sets, the falling ice crystal will reflect the sunlight and produce a rare light column, generally lasting only about 1 minute.
A little hard to understand? In human words, ice crystals in the air reflect sunlight, forming a light column, which is the sun column.
The formation process is as follows:
When ice falls from clouds at high levels, it sometimes forms a flat plate, shaped like some ice crystals. (it’s actually a mirror in the sky)
Air resistance makes these ice crystals almost horizontal when they fall to the ground (the mirror falls to the ground).
Sunlight reflected by ice crystals is therefore almost entirely vertical, resulting in a heliospheric effect (mirrors on the ground reflect sunlight to form a log).
This kind of phenomenon usually occurs around – 20 ?.
Mars tide
Mars tide is a kind of fluorescence beach, which is a phenomenon caused by the luminescent microorganisms in the sea water washed into Shanghai beach. The common fluorescence beach includes green and blue. Most of the luminescent microorganisms produce fluorescence, which will glow when hit by the waves.
Its formation is due to a kind of bioluminescence phenomenon. It is mainly formed by dinoflagellate – Noctiluca, which is small in size and hard to be detected by the naked eye. Noctiluca also has a romantic nickname – blue tears. When disturbed, they emit a very bright blue light to attract senior predators such as fish, thus expelling their direct predators.
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