We visited so many amazing places in Tasmania, partly as I have a love of interesting geological features! These are called liesegang rings, with coloured bands of cement s in sedimentary rocks.
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One of southern Iceland's gems - so popular it is with tourists that a shuttle bus runs from the main car park every few minutes to take them what would be a 45 minute walk should one feel energetic. We walked and it did take around 45 minutes - we got there before sunset and left after a brilliant northern light show. We prefer to post the sunset shot though rather than the aurora.
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New images of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope herald the start of the planet's "spoke season" surrounding its equinox, when enigmatic features appear across its rings. The cause of the spokes, as well as their seasonal variability, has yet to be fully explained by planetary scientists.
Like Earth, Saturn is tilted on its axis and therefore has four seasons, though because of Saturn's much larger orbit, each season lasts approximately seven Earth years. Equinox occurs when the rings are tilted edge-on to the Sun. The spokes disappear when it is near summer or winter solstice on Saturn. (When the Sun appears to reach either its highest or lowest latitude in the northern or southern hemisphere of a planet.) As the autumnal equinox of Saturn's northern hemisphere on May 6, 2025, draws near, the spokes are expected to become increasingly prominent and observable.
The suspected culprit for the spokes is the planet's variable magnetic field. Planetary magnetic fields interact with the solar wind, creating an electrically charged environment (on Earth, when those charged particles hit the atmosphere this is visible in the northern hemisphere as the aurora borealis, or northern lights). Scientists think that the smallest, dust-sized icy ring particles can become charged as well, which temporarily levitates those particles above the rest of the larger icy particles and boulders in the rings.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
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In such conditions, with impressive waves and golden skies, it can be difficult to focus on your safety rather than focus through your camera.... This is not a good idea, especially at Reynisdrangar. I got caught by the next wave and was lucky that nothing happened except for being soaked!
Unter solchen Bedingungen, mit beeindruckenden Wellen und goldenem Himmel, kann es schwierig sein, sich auf die eigene Sicherheit zu fokussieren, anstatt durch die Kamera... Das ist keine gute Idee, vor allem nicht bei Reynisdrangar. Ich wurde von der nächsten Welle erwischt und hatte Glück, dass nichts weiter passiert ist.
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