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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Часовые северного неба http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1374217/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Pierre Destribats
Explanation:
Who guards the north?
The featured picture was taken last March in
Finnish Lapland
where weather can include sub-freezing temperatures and driving snow.
Surreal
landscapes sometimes result, where
white alien-looking sentinels seem to patrol the landscape.
In actuality though, the
aliens are snow-covered trees,
and the red hut they seem to be guarding is an
outhouse.
Far in the distance, behind this uncommon
Earthly vista, is a beautiful
night sky
which includes a
green
aurora, bright stars, and streaks of
orbiting satellites.
Of course, in the spring, the trees thaw and
Lapland looks
much
different.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.