Lake Maracaibo is a large brackish lake at Catatumbo in Venezuela. It is commonly considered a lake rather than a bay, and at 13,210 km² it would be the largest lake in South America. The lake is also the location of Catatumbo lightning.
The Moon, our Earth's natural satellite, gives more incredibilty to the natural beauty of our Earth...
These pictures taken by storm chasers that show tornados can be both deadly - and hypnotically beautiful.
A house in Mulvane, Kansas, misses the path of terror.
A cloud over
A violent swirling mass darkens the skies over
Laguna Colorada is a shallow salt lake in ‘Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve’ in the southwest region of
The Katla Volcano at Eyjafjallajokull:
The Katla volcano's sensitivity to eruptions at Eyjafjallajokull may have to do with pressure that shifts in the Earth's crust and are caused by an eruption's magma flow.
During the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, the red hot lava lights up the night sky as it spews from the volcano, with giant red clouds rising behind.
This eruption generated spectacular cascades of melted water and ice chunks the size of houses when burning gases and molten earth carved through the glacier.
The picture shows the simmers of the volcanoes.
The volcano has simmered to 80 per cent of its intensity, but scientists warned that earth tremors could cause an even larger eruption at a neighbouring crater.
With fire and 1,250C lava spitting out from its core, the volcano presented a far more violent image to the world.
Dust particles were shot up into the skies above and drifted down over the Atlantic, closing vast swathes of European airspace.
An eruption at the Katla volcano would be ten times stronger and shoot higher and larger plumes of ash into the air than its smaller neighbour.
Katla is buried under one of Iceland's largest glaciers, the Myrdalsjokull, which is 500m deep.
This means it has more than twice the amount of ice than the current eruption has burned through, threatening a new and possibly longer aviation standstill across Europe.
Most likely a coincidence, but this picture indicates that the forces of evil are at work in the eruption in Eyjafjallajökull. The Icelandic Coast Guard aircraft were quite astonished when they looked at the form of the three craters during their surveillance flight. The crew members captured this amazing, but unpleasant, image of the three craters. It appears as the the devil himself is at work, they joked about.
#1:The Death Valley Park
The Death Valley Park is simply spectacular. The park has many different attractions, including vast sand dunes and high peaks overlooking the valley. Death Valley is about 140 miles long and has 3.4 million acres of desert and mountains, making it the largest national park in the contiguous United States. It is the hottest, driest and lowest place around. The highest mountain in Death Valley National Park is 11,049 foot Telescope Peak. The vertical drop from the peak to the Badwater Basin is twice the depth of Grand Canyon. But the real highlight, i.e. The Badwater Basin is at 282 feet below sea level. This is not just the lowest place in the park; it's the lowest in North America.
#2: The Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park is America's first national park. It has the Old Faithful and a collection of the world's most extraordinary geysers and hot springs.
The Old Faithful is a cone geyser. The eruptions of the geysers can shoot 3,700 to 8,400 gallons between (14–32.000 litre) of boiling water to a height of 106–185 feet (30–56 m) lasting from 1.5 to 5 minutes.
The vivid colors in the Grand Prismatic Spring are the result of pigmented bacteria in the microbial mats that grow around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The bacteria produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature of the water that favors one bacterium over another. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.
#3: The Utah Park
This Utah Park is known for its amazing rock formations called hoodoos. They are pinnacles, or spires or odd-shaped rocks left standing by the forces of erosion. Bryce Canyon is named after Ebenezer Bryce, an immigrant from Scotland. Bryce was sent by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because his skill as a carpenter would be useful in settling the area. Locals started calling the canyon with the strange rock formations near his home "Bryce's Canyon." Ebenezer and his moved in 1880 to Arizona but his name stuck.
The park highlights two of the world's most active volcanoes, and offers insights on the birth of the
The Wave is a sandstone rock formation located in the United States of America near the Arizona and the Utah border on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes. Erosion by wind and rain has created the spectacular landscape which appears now. The soft sandstone of The Wave is fragile; one need to walk carefully to not break the small ridges.
The Taklamakan Desert:
The Taklamakan Desert (In Central Asia) is a cold desert in China. Given its relative proximity with the cold to frigid air masses in Siberia, extreme lows are recorded in wintertime; sometimes well below −20 °C. In 2008, China’s biggest desert experienced its biggest snowfall and lowest temperature after 11 consecutive days of snow. Snow is rare in the desert that covered 337,600 square kilometers, never before had the whole desert been covered.
The Taklamakan Desert was covered with snow after a heavy snowfall. Its beauty is as it seems that China is suffering from the worst winter weather in decades, which are affecting the lives of millions.
The Antarctica:
Antarctica, the continent surrounding the Earth’s South Pole, is the world's driest and wettest desert. It is a land of extremes, the coldest place on Earth. It's not inhabited year round by humans because it's simply too freezing cold.
These are the pictures of the nature which shows as if the Lord God has painted them by His own hand. These seem to be the touch of the brushes on the world as the large canvas.
The branches spread out into the sky and from below appear to hover over the landscape like so many flying saucers… and from above they have a distinct mushroom look…
There is also a desert rose (adenium obesium) which looks like nothing so much as a blooming elephant leg…
