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Aurora

Aurora Borealis in strange, human form

The aurora is a glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar zone. For this reason some scientists call it a "polar aurora" (or "aurora polaris"). In northern latitudes, it is known as "aurora borealis" which is named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora and the greek name for north wind, Boreas since in Europe especially, it often appears as a reddish glow on the northern horizon as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. The aurora borealis is also called the "northern lights". The aurora borealis most often occurs from September to October and March to April.




Its southern counterpart, "aurora australis", has similar properties.

Aurora australis (September 11, 2005) as captured by NASA's IMAGE satellite.

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Clouds in the sky




Clouds form when the air rises. As a blob of air rises it expands and gets colder, the colder air cannot hold as much water as warmer air. As the temperature and air pressure continue to drop, tiny water droplets group together into clumps called cloud droplets. At this point, the blob of air becomes a visible cloud.
That's what some would say, but I don't believe a word of it. ;)


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Our Friends


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That's Impawssible!


Bubba, a smooth fox terrier, cools his heels during a game of swimming-pool fetch in Crystal River, Florida. Light shining into the pool creates a mirror on the underside of the water’s surface, giving the dog his all-legs look.
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Bryce Canyon



Bryce Canyon, famous for its worldly unique geology, consists of a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters carved from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah. The erosional force of frost-wedging and the dissolving power of rainwater have shaped the colorful limestone rock of the Claron Formation into bizarre shapes including slot canyons, windows, fins, and spires called "hoodoos."
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Wild Horse, Equus caballus

The horse was domesticated in southern Ukraine about 5,000 years ago, and domestic horses have been introduced all over the world. The wild horses found in the U.S. are the descendants of domestic horses that escaped to the wild. Ten western states have wild horse populations, where they are sometimes called mustangs. In the East, the little Assateague Ponies are found on several islands off the coast of Virginia and Maryland.




These ARE the wild horses, but some horses are just wilder than others.


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Mission Impossible



All right, Tom Cruise is cool guy an everything, but this little guy is for real!

:)

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Circles in nature





In Euclidean geometry, a circle is the set of all points in a plane at a fixed distance, called the radius, from a fixed point, the centre. In nature's beauty, circle is much more than that.
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Heaven through lens





I promised some heavenly photos, didn't I? So here they are. That is the closest that man could get to Heaven through camera.
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The sky above us





Many cultures ascribed strong religious qualities to Earth's sky, believing it to be the home of the heavens and various deities. Among the Chinese, in certain situations, sky means god. For example, people may say "They became friends after several fights: this is the idea of the sky" or "Why does the sky always fool me?" Some religion and art historians believe that in Christianity, in particular, the connection between heaven and sky arose because of a medieval painting technique, where different places were drawn separately on the same picture. Heaven, a different and more important world, was usually painted above the earthly world and was separated from it by clouds.

Tomorrow I'll post some heavenly photos. ;)

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Under the Sea

Almost three-quarters of the Earth are covered by oceans and seas. These billions of ton of salty water are home to silent Sharks, playful Dolphins, huge Whales, spiny orange Crabs, giant Octopuses with their eight long arms, friendly turtles and fishes of all shapes and sizes. Beautiful under water gardens of bright colored coral provide a home for stinging sea anemones, poisonous sea slugs and deadly eels.



Many parts of the world's seas and oceans are too deep, dark and cold to support anything except small, simple, forms of life. Other places are so fantastically deep that nobody has ever been able to explore them. Someday, we may discover that even more incredible plants and animals than we imagined inhabit this silent, watery world.
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Space




"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."
Douglas Adams
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King of the jungle and his servants




O yes, king of the jungle and his servants are also part of nature's beautiful side.
The disturbing fact is that the lion population of Africa has fallen from 200,000 twenty years ago to an appalling 23,000 today.
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Blue light from the sky




Clouds and dust haze appear white because they consist of particles larger than the wavelengths of light, which scatter all wavelengths equally. But sometimes there might be other particles in the air that are much smaller. Some mountainous regions are famous for their blue haze. Aerosols of terpenes from the vegetation react with ozone in the atmosphere to form small particles about 200 nm across, and these particles scatter the blue light.
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The Earth's lungs




Human beings need lungs to breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. Without our lungs, we couldn't survive. Trees on the other hand, act like the lungs of the earth. Trees help the planet breathe by turning carbon dioxide into clean, pure, oxygen.
Trees and forests around the world also act like the planet's air conditioning system and keep the planet cool. They help stop global warming. Global warming happens when we burn too much oil or gasoline and when we cut down too many forests. Global warming makes the weather change in serious ways, which is why it's important to stop it from happening. Protecting forests keeps our planet cool.
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Funny Nature

These photos and videos are funny, amusing, and sometimes weird. Weird photos and themes that leave a lasting impression, or maybe just make you laugh and are forgotten as they drift into the synaptic abyss. Comment!


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Forests, Trees and Flowers

Why is a forest important? Releases vapor which in turn produces clouds. Releases oxygen. Holds topsoil in place. Provides a home for plants, animals, and other living things. Releases nutrient like nitrogen back into the soil from naturally dying trees. Here is a collection of photos and wallpapers. Take a deep breath! :)


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Mountains

Over long periods of time, mountains are created by tremendous forces in the earth with a steep top usually shaped up to a peak or ridge. Mountains occur more often in oceans than on land; some islands are the peaks of mountains coming out of the water. Mountains are formed by volcanism, erosion, and disturbances or uplift in the earth's crust. Most geologists believe that the majority of mountains are formed by geological forces heat and pressure producing changes under the earth's crust and movements in the earth's crust. They call this movement plate tectonics. This theory sees the crust of the earth divided into a number of vast rigid plates that move about at the rate of a few centimeters a year. The uplift is caused by the collision of plates below the earth's surface that triggers various geologic processes that produce this crustal uplift. Other processes are caused by horizontal compression that is the deformation of crustal strata which produces folds or wrinkles. The Himalayas, for example, were raised by the compression that accompanied collision of the Indian plate with the Eurasian plate. Another example is Europe's Alps and Jura mountains which were also formed by horizontal compression, generated in their case by collision with the African plate and the Eurasian plate. Some ranges of low mountains are raised by nontectonic processes, and are caused by sculpturing effects of differential erosion. Erosion occurs when wind, rain and ice are present. Mountains are impacted by erosion through the combined action of wind, rain and ice changing the shapes of the mountains.
Volcanism causes mountains to form. Examples of mountains formed by periodically dangerous volcanic action are Mount Ranier and Mount Saint Helens in the United States, Mount Erebus in Antarctica, Mount Vesuvius in Italy, and Mount Fuji in Japan. Many of these volcanic mountains have summit craters that still emit steam and debris; others that no longer show signs of volcanic activity may only be dormant, not extinct. Shield volcanoes found in Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea in Hawaii are less spectacular even when quite high.
Here are some themes about volcanos, caves, canyons or just beautiful mountain peeks.


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Sun And Sky

The Sun is a restless object that is wracked by magnetic storms, flinging electrified gas into space, creating "space weather". Some of this material collides with the Earth causing the colourful aurorae and many other effects. Our only star, beautiful and dangerous in the same time. Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered what causes thunderstorms with heavy rain and bright lightning? Explore thunderstorms and other fascinating things from the sky.


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Space

We do not know for a fact that space is infinite. Light is what we use to explore distant space, the light from stars. We know how fast light travels, so if we know how far away a star is, we know how long ago the star put out the light. From motion of the Earth, looking at a star at different times of the year, we know how far away the most distant galaxies we have ever seen are located. These are stars just coming into being, very young stars. This causes scientists to believe that there aren't many stars beyond. Still, they could be. It is possible that a very distant set of galaxies exists on itown, too far away for its light to have reached us yet. We do not know for sure. Until there is something to indicate its existence, scientists will try to explain things without it. Scientists prefer to use the simplest models possible that still agree with reality. I doesn't even metter is it or is it not space infinite. What matters is that there is infinite beauty in space. A piece of that beauty we will try to capture.


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Water

About 70% of the Earth is covered with water, and 97% of that is part of the salty oceans. Only a small portion of the Earth's water is freshwater. This includes such things as rivers, lakes, and groundwater. Freshwater is needed for drinking, farming, and washing. There is even water in the form of ice at the poles. Without water, life as we know it would not exist.


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Beautiful Locations

Wonderful places to relax and to unwind. A perfect spots in our paradise.


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Animals

At Nature's Mighty Pictures, our purpose is to inform you about animals we find unique, rare, special, or interesting. Although we do not have information on all animals, please remember that they all are - amazing, filled with astonishment or wonder, to confound, to perplex.
We have chosen these animals carefully and tried to present useful and fun information.
We hope you enjoy the site!


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Miscellaneous

All that stuff that can't be sorted, but have to be seen.


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Iceland through satellite



Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. The first satellite photographs of Earth were made April 1, 1960 by the weather satellite TIROS-1. In the early 21st century satellite imagery became widely available when affordable, easy to use software with access to satellite imagery databases became offered by several companies and organizations. In 2005 the Australian company Astrovision (ASX: HZG) announced plans to launch the first ever commercial Geostationary satellite in the Asia-Pacific. It will provide true color, real-time live satellite feeds, with down to 250 metres resolution over the entire Asia-Pacific region, from India to Hawaii and Japan to Australia. They intend to provide this content to users of 3G mobile phones, over Pay TV as a weather channel, and to corporate and government users.
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