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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Часовые Арктики http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1265086/eng |
Credit & Copyright: NiccolР Bonfadini
Explanation:
Who guards the north?
Judging from the above photograph, possibly giant trees covered in snow and ice.
The picture was taken last winter in
Finnish Lapland
where weather can include sub-freezing temperatures and driving snow.
Surreal
landscapes sometimes result, where common trees become
cloaked in white and so appear, to some, as
watchful aliens.
Far in the distance, behind this uncommon
Earthly vista, is a more common sight -- a
Belt of Venus that divided a darkened from sunlit sky
as the Sun rose behind the photographer.
Of course, in the spring, the trees have thawed and
Lapland looks
much
different.
Astronomy Seminar of the Week:
The 2012 Transit of Venus
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.