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Sun pillar.jpgAnother light Sun Pillar66 visitenessun commento
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Sun_Pillar.jpgA light "Sun-pillar" from somewhere in USA93 visiteCaption originale NASA. "Have you ever seen a sun pillar? When the air is cold and the Sun is rising or setting, falling ice crystals can reflect sunlight and create an unusual "column of light". Ice sometimes forms flat, stop-sign shaped crystals as it falls from high-level clouds; air resistance causes these crystals to lie nearly flat much of the time as they flutter to the ground. Then sunlight reflects off crystals that are properly aligned, creating the so-called "Sun-pillar" effect".
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Sun_Pillar_in_blue_and_violet.jpgSun Pillar from Lake Tahoe - Nevada State Park (USA)119 visiteCaption originale NASA: "Sometimes the unknown is beautiful. In 2000 February near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, two amateur photographers noticed an unusual red column of light rise mysteriously from a setting sun. During the next few minutes, they were able to capture the pillar and a photogenic sunset on film. Pictured above, the red column is seen above a serene Lake Tahoe and snow-capped mountains across from Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park. The mysterious column, they learned later, is a Sun Pillar, a phenomenon where sunlight reflects off of distant falling ice crystals".
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