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archaeology:

The Forum Romanum under snow.

via Deep Freeze Spreads Across Europe - In Focus - The Atlantic

discoverynews:

Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway

Over the weekend, the Earth’s magnetic field was struck by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME — a vast bubble of solar plasma that had erupted from the sun on Jan. 19 — took longer than expected to travel through interplanetary space, but on Sunday it made contact.

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theworldwelivein:

Kiruna Aurora | Kiruna, Norrbotten, Sweden
© antonyspencer

For those who wonder why some of the aurora is blue and some of it is green, the blue is created by nitrogen and the green by oxygen.

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ragingbeard:

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david-attenborough:

Only 1% of Antarctica is free of ice, and most of that bare rock is here. The Dry Valleys are more like the surface on Mars than is any other place on Earth.

Frozen Planet, To the Ends of the Earth

woah

holy fuck

seriously

This is so amazing looking, I’d love to go there someday. It really does look like pictures from the surface of Mars.

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britta-perry:

Each crystal forms around a particle of dust. All have a 6-fold symmetry, but no two have ever been found with exactly the same shape. Their variety and complexity is breathtaking.

Frozen Planet, 1.01

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hugginangryfeminist:

This is the “smoke ring” a strange phenomenon that happens in volcanoes and it has only been documented 3 times. Two from Mt. Etna in 1970 and 2000, and another from Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland, in May 2010.

too cool not to reblog. 

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latimes:

Saturn’s Great White Spot, which occurs about once every 30 Earth years, is a windy, towering cloud of ammonia and water spewing out super jolts of thunder and lightning. The storm is about 10,000 times stronger than those on Earth.

Photo credit: NASA

thesixpennybook:

Lightning as seen from space, somewhere over Brazil.

ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli’s photographs from the International Space Station.

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sunsurfer:

Lightning Strike, Greystanes, Australia

photo by kane quinnell

lukevoice:

“A rare fire tornado has been seen in the Brazilian state of Sao Paolo. A whirlwind of flame, spiralling several metres high, danced across burning fields, bringing traffic to a halt on a nearby highway. This unusual phenomenon has been caused by a combination of wildfires and strong dry winds following weeks of drought in the country. Authorities in Brazil are struggling to contain the fires and have banned farmers from burning waste from the sugar cane harvest.”

landscapelifescape:

Awbari, Libya

The Red Moon ! (by Bashar Shglila)

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fuckyeaheyegasms:

travelhighlights:

Christmas time in the Erzgebirge by Erik (digipixx)

Ore Mountains, Germany

I didn’t believe this was real, at first. :D

sunsurfer:

Aurora Bourealis, Lapland, Finland

photo by diane cook and len jenchal for national geographic

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