The Greatest Vertical Drop on Earth Mount Thor is the purely Greatest vertical drop. It is located in Auyuittuq National Park, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It’s height is 1250 meters or 4100 ft. Though summit elevation is much more which is 1675 meters. Greatest nearly vertical drop Trango Towers, Pakistan is 2nd highest vertical drop […]
Undulatus Asperatus is a new type of cloud identified in 2009. Undulatus Asperatus means “agitated waves”. It is first photographed in 2006, at Cedar Rapids in Iowa, U.S. and later in France, Norway, Norway, Salcome (Devon), Middlesbrough and Perthshire (Scotland) similar type of cloud formation seen. Cloud Appreciation Society (CAS) collected as many photograph of […]
Fallstreak Clouds it also known as hole-punch clouds. What Are Fallstreak Holes? A fallstreak hole is a glaciating supercooled cloud that is formed from ice crystals falling through a supercooled layer of cloud. It is a rare occurrence. Mushroom Clouds A mushroom cloud is a distinctive mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke, condensed water vapor, or debris […]
A solar flare is a tremendous explosion on the Sun that happens when energy stored in ‘twisted’ magnetic fields (usually above sunspots) is suddenly released. In a matter of just a few minutes they heat material to many millions of degrees and produce a burst of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, including from radio waves […]
The sun’s erratic and sometimes volatile behavior has the potential to cause real problems here on Earth, and protecting our planet will require an international effort, according to scientists who gathered recently for a meeting about the effects of solar activity. Streams of charged particles that fly off the sun can interfere with electronics on […]