Thursday, February 24, 2011

Rainbow Fire in Idaho

Femonena atmosphere known as circumhorizon arc or Fire Rainbow (rainbow fire), will appear when the sun is high (more than 58 degrees above the horizon). Sunlight shone through the straight and cirrus clouds, resulting in a kind of crystal slabs and formed hexagon prism effect. So it looks like a flame-shaped rainbow.

Climbing Goats of Morocco

Goat who climbed a tree, only to be found in Morocco. These goats climb trees because they want to eat the fruit of the argan tree, similar to Olive Fruit.

Eternal Lightning in Venezuela

Catatumbo a mysterious lightning is a natural phenomenon unique in the world. Located at the mouth of the river at Lake Maracaibo Catatumbo. This phenomenon is a cloud lightning that forms a "line" along the 5 kilometer lightning, every 140-160 nights a year, for 10 hours each night, and more than 280 times in 1 hour. It almost could be called 'permanent storm'. Lightning has the intensity of 400,000 amperes, and visible up to 400 km away. According to research, lightning is due to the collision the wind that comes from the Andes Mountains. Lightning was also used as navigation by sailors.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Naked Sled Race 2011




Participants lay on their sleds during a race at the third international naked sled riding event in Braunlage, Germany, February 19, 2011. Hundreds of spectators cheered the international participants, who were wearing next to nothing but helmets, when they were sliding down an icy slope on plastic sleds.