Picture of the Day: A Horizon Rainbow in Paris «TwistedSifter

May 7th, 2013 - 101 views

Photograph by Bertrand Kulik

Have you ever seen a horizon before? This fascinating phenomenon was recently captured by photographer Bertrand Kulik in , . According to Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD):

“What is pictured above is actually just a common rainbow. It’s uncommon appearance is caused by the Sun being unusually high in the sky during the rainbow’s creation. Since every rainbow’s center must be exactly opposite the Sun, a high Sun reflecting off of a distant rain will produce a low rainbow where only the very top is visible — because the rest of the rainbow is below the horizon.

Furthermore, no two observers can see exactly the same rainbow — every person finds themselves exactly between the Sun and rainbow’s center, and every observer sees the colorful circular band precisely 42 degrees from rainbow’s center.” [Source]

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Picture of the Day: The Grand Canyon Skywalk

October 25th, 2012 - 73 views

Photograph via skywalk-tour.blogspot.com

The is a transparent horseshoe-shaped cantilever and tourist attraction in near the Colorado River on the edge of a side in the Grand West area of the main . USGS topographic maps show the elevation at the Skywalk’s location as 4,770 ft (1,450 m) and the elevation of the Colorado River in the base of the as 1,160 ft (350 m), and they show that the height of the precisely vertical drop directly under the skywalk is between 500 ft (150 m) and 800 ft (240 m).

Commissioned and owned by the Hualapai Indian tribe, it was unveiled March 20, 2007, and opened to the general public on March 28, 2007. It is accessed via the Grand Canyon West Airport terminal or a 120-mile (190 km) drive from Las Vegas, which includes a 10-mile (16 km) stretch of dirt road which is currently under development. The Skywalk is east of Meadview and north of Peach Springs with Kingman being the closest major city. [Source: Wikipedia]

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Wyoming Double Rainbow Photo Stuns Onlookers

September 19th, 2012 - 109 views

resident Jonmikel Pardo took this spectacular photograph of a double on Sep. 1. from his backyard in Lander, Wyo.

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Xiying Rainbow Bridge at sunset « Hungeree

August 9th, 2012 - 140 views

The Xiying is illuminated with a band of color which stretches across its span as the sun sets in Magong, , on July 27, 2012.

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Misty rainbow at Yosemite « Hungeree

July 30th, 2012 - 57 views

Photo credit: Justin Lee / Caters News

A appears in the scattered mist of a at National Park in .

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Picture of the Day: The Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree

April 17th, 2012 - 95 views

Photograph by Amanda Pope @ About Unknown (abt-unk.blogpost.ca)

Posted to Reddit earlier today, this gorgeous photograph by Amanda Pope shows a group of Eucalyptus trees spotted just off the Hana Highway in east .

Eucalyptus deglupta is a tall , commonly known as the Rainbow Eucalyptus, the Mindanao Gum, or the Rainbow Gum. It is the only Eucalyptus species found naturally in the Northern Hemisphere. Its natural distribution spans New Britain, New Guinea, Ceram, Sulawesi and Mindanao. The unique multi-hued bark is the most distinctive feature of the . Patches of outer bark are shed annually at different times, showing a bright green inner bark. This then darkens and matures to give blue, purple, orange and then maroon tones.

In the present day this tree is grown widely around the world in tree plantations, mainly for pulpwood used in making paper. It is the dominant species used for pulpwood plantations in the Philippines. It is also cultivated as an ornamental tree for planting in tropical and subtropical climate gardens and parks. [Source: Wikipedia]

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The Global Rainbow « Hungeree

March 26th, 2012 - 84 views

Photo credit: Peter Morrison / AP

Artist Yvette Mattern’s Global projection shot into the night sky from Scrabo in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, on the evening of March 16, 2012. The Global marks 100 days until the opening of the 2012 Arts Festival which runs for three months and kicks off alongside the Games in on June 21, 2012.

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Water truck catches the rainbow

February 2nd, 2012 - 82 views

A which spewed a wide arc of water on crops in the state of Florida, captured the as the droplets of water caught the sun and refracted the light into a brilliant . Photographer Judd Patterson caught the fleeting as it appeared in the air above the fledgling plants.

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Picture of the Day: Serenity Now

January 19th, 2012 - 75 views

Photograph by ZAK NOYLE for SURFER MAGAZINE

Sun, , wave, surf. Oh and a . This gorgeous photograph by Zak Noyle was the winner of Surfer Magazine’s ‘photo of the year’ and it’s easy to see why. The image was taken with a fisheye lens at Teahupoo in Tahiti. The is Christian Redongo.

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Rainbow vs Tornado Is Like Good vs Evil, Ponies vs Scorpions, Tofu vs Pork

January 16th, 2012 - 108 views

This is a pretty picture of a rare occurrence, the odd coupling of a and a waterspout dancing side by side. Waterspouts are tornadoes over . This happened near Crete, Greece, in the Mediterranean sea.

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