TOP 13 BEAUTIFUL NATURAL PHENOMENONS ON EARTH

As we all know, mother nature is great, there are phenomena happening around us whose beauty is as attractive as the charm of a beautiful girl. Sometimes we even think they are the product of 360, of photoshop or of the human imagination. But the beautiful natural phenomena below are completely real and they are captured by skilled photographers or even amateur photographers of tourists. Here are the top 10 beautiful natural phenomena that will surprise you.

Monday, June 26, 2023

1. Tubular clouds

TOP 13 BEAUTIFUL NATURAL PHENOMENONS ON EARTH

Roll clouds are tubular clouds that look like they've been rolled into a horizontal band across the sky. They appear low in the sky and are one of the few clouds that represent severe weather. Here's a trick to distinguish them from shelf clouds. Detects are rare, but will tell you where there's a thunderstorm ahead or other weather boundary, like a cold front or sea breeze. Because these clouds are formed by the flow of cold air. Tubular clouds often appear before storms. The movement of storms causes moist air containing a lot of water vapor to rise, the higher the temperature, the lower the temperature, so the water vapor cools and then condenses into tiny particles.

If the above process takes place near a hot air mass, the surface of the cold air mass will be crushed by the hot air mass and a tubular cloud may form. Due to the action of the hot air mass, the humidity and temperature of the surrounding air rapidly increase, causing the wind to become stronger. The wind moves and rotates along the horizontal axis of the cloud. From a distance we can mistake the tubular cloud for a horizontal tornado.

2. Clouds Mamatus

Mamatus rattan in Vietnam is also known as dragon scale rattan. Mamatus is a meteorological term applied to cloud photopollution that hangs in thick layers beneath another cloud. It is a normal meteorological phenomenon. In Vietnam, clouds of this type have appeared many times. Mammatus clouds are a cellular pattern of vesicles of bubbles hanging below the base of a cloud, usually a cumulonimbus cloud, although they may be attached to other layers of the parent cloud. According to the WMO international cloud map, mamma is an adjective that complements cloud rather than a genus, species, or multiple clouds. They are formed by cold air sinking to form pockets as opposed to clouds that rise through convection of warm air. Anyone seeing this cloud of dragon scales for the first time would say, “The sky is falling!”. As strange as they may seem, mammatus are not dangerous - they simply signal that a storm may be nearby.

When you see clouds these are related to the phenomenon of thunderstorms. It is usually the underside of dark clouds. The first condition to form Mamatus clouds is a thunderstorm accompanied by heavy rain, thunder. However, these Mamatus clouds are harmless and their appearance is often at its worst when thunderstorms pass. Mamatus consists of undulating and semi-transparent clouds that can form a cloud field stretching for hundreds of kilometers. A group of Mamatus clouds with a diameter of 1-3 km and a length of about 0.5 km exists for an average period of 1 minute. However, a large Mamatus cloud group can last from 15 minutes to several hours. They usually carry ice either between ice and water or simply contain all the water in the belly of the cloud. The US is the country that can observe this phenomenon the most. During the warm months of Mamatus, the movement of the air layer is so intense that scientists recommend that aircraft should not operate in this cloudy weather.

3. Super Moon

When the Moon is at its fullest and closest to the Earth, it becomes a supermoon. The Moon orbits the Earth in an elliptical orbit, making the Moon's size when observed from Earth much different. The "Super Moon" (Great Moon) occurs when the full moon is closest to the Earth, while the "Micromoon" (Little Moon) is the opposite. A supermoon occurs when humans observe that the Moon appears to be larger than usual because the Moon is then closer to the Earth at a point close to its elliptical orbit around the Earth. The Moon's closest position to the Earth is 363,700 km, at this time the Moon is seen on Earth 14% larger than usual size and 30% brighter than the farthest position about 405,600 kilometer.

The term "Supermoon" has been used for about 40 years, but it was not until the end of 2016 that it received much attention when three supermoons occurred in a row. The November 2016 Supermoon is also the closest the Moon has appeared to Earth in the past 69 years, although the closer will occur around the 30s of the 21st century. At other supermoon times in the past such as 1941, 1948, 1992 and 1900, people have witnessed many other unusual weather phenomena taking place on a worldwide scale. A supermoon can change the tides a bit, but it certainly won't cause a natural disaster. A full moon causes higher tides, but a supermoon doesn't make any significant difference. Scientists consider themselves lucky if they can see any difference in tide levels. Usually, a supermoon causes the tides to change by less than a centimeter (if any).

4. Fire rainbow

This rare phenomenon known as the Fire Rainbow, is actually not a rainbow, nor is it related to fire, it is a special optical phenomenon in the form of a multicolored band but parallel to the horizon. Fire Rainbow English is Fire Rainbow. The phenomenon of fire rainbows is extremely rare, occurring only when the Sun is high, allowing sunlight to penetrate the tiny clouds above with a large amount of ice crystals. Fire rainbow in Idaho, USA is one of the most amazing and rare natural phenomena in the world. It's not like a regular rainbow. It is produced when light passes through the swirling clouds overhead and only when the Sun is very high, above 58 degrees above the horizon, can we witness this interesting phenomenon. Furthermore, the hexagonal ice crystals in the torsion cloud must be shaped like a thick disk with faces parallel to the ground to create a perfect fire rainbow.

When light passes vertically through the upper face and exits the lower face, it is refracted as if light were passing through a prism. If the twisted ice crystals are properly lined up, the entire cloud will emit a spectrum of colors that looks like a beautiful fire. Fire rainbows are colorful halos that appear rapidly in the sky. When seen in the sky, this colorful halo looks like a rainbow. However, it only appears in large clouds and at certain latitudes. This optical phenomenon arises from the refraction of sunlight, sometimes the Moon, through ice crystals suspended in the air. The Sun must then be very high, about 58 degrees above the horizon or higher. On Earth, fire rainbows cannot appear north of latitude 55 degrees North and south of latitude 55 degrees South. For people living near the poles, observing this phenomenon is impossible.

5. Blue Ice

Blue Ice Area is an area of Antarctic ice where strong winds sublimate snow resulting in a loss of their net mass on unmelted ice surfaces, which in turn causes some areas of Antarctic ice to appear blue. (contrast with the surrounding white). Blue-ice regions often form when the movement of both air and ice is hindered by terrain such as mountains emerging from the ice sheet, creating locations with distinctive climatic conditions with a net accumulation of snow formed by the sublimation of the wind to move the snow. Only about 1% of the ice surface area in Antarctica is blue ice. But they attract the attention of scientists because of the large number of meteorites located in this area. Many meteorites have fallen directly into the blue-ice area and stayed there or fell onto the ice sheets and drifted to the blue-ice area by ice streams. In addition, ice up to 2.7 million years old has been found from blue ice regions.

Blue ice areas are also sometimes used as runways for aircraft. One of the most awe-inspiring sights in Antarctica is the rippling blue ice sheets that resemble a frozen ocean. The blue patches of ice that appear there are the scouring evaporation of the glacial paints, the translucent surface is polished by the wind, the surface of the ice reflects an impressive turquoise color when the polar Sun peeks out. dawn above the horizon. Antarctica is currently the only place on Earth with distinctive patches of blue ice like this. Without the scattering effect of the air bubbles, light can penetrate the ice deeper. To the human eye the patches of ancient glacial paint act as a filter absorbing red and yellow light and reflecting blue light creating the beautiful blue shades of a glacier.

6. Light Pillar

A light pillar is an optical phenomenon in the atmosphere in the form of a vertical band of light that appears to extend above or below a light source. This effect is produced by the reflection of light from numerous small ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere or clouds. Light can come from the Sun (usually when it is near or even below the horizon) in which case this phenomenon is known as the sun pillar. It can also come from the Moon or from terrestrial sources such as street lights. Since they are caused by the interaction of light with ice crystals, pillars of light belong to the family of auras. The crystals responsible for the pillars of light are usually composed of flat, hexagonal plates, which tend to orient themselves more or less horizontally as they fall through the air. Their crystalline surfaces act like a giant mirror reflecting the light source upward or downward into a virtual image. When crystals are disturbed by perturbations, the angle of their surfaces deflects by a few degrees in the horizontal direction, causing the reflection (i.e. light pillar) to extend out into a column. The larger the crystals, the more pronounced this effect becomes. Rarely columnar crystals can also cause bright columns. In very cold weather, ice crystals can hang near the ground, in which case they are called diamond dust.

Unlike a beam of light, a pillar of light is not above or below the light source. The appearance of a vertical line is an optical illusion, resulting from reflections from the collective crystals off the ice crystals. Only images that lie in a vertical line directing light rays towards the observer (similar to the reflection of a light source in a water crystal). The columns of light by reflecting sunlight and the Moon appear in the areas near the poles, so ice crystals in the air. Because the phenomenon of water freezing in the air only occurs at the poles, we rarely have the opportunity to observe them much. This is a reflection based on light scattering, the essence is like a rainbow but the difference is that one side is caused by water vapor and the other is caused by ice. Until now, scientists still do not have the most appropriate explanation for this Light Pillar phenomenon.

7. Fire Dragon

Fire dragon, also known as fire tornado or fire tornado, is a natural phenomenon that often occurs but is very rare or recorded. Most fire tornadoes form during wildfires. They are created when the converging hot air rises upward, causing the surrounding air areas to overflow and collide to form a vortex that rises upwards (like when pulling a large object out of water will see a vortex as the surrounding water fills its place) carrying the flames below. These fire tornadoes are usually less than half a meter tall before being extinguished, it is like a fire dancing all over the burning area, which is why it is also known as the fire demon.

The recorded tornadoes are usually 10 to 50 meters high, several meters wide. But sometimes these fire tornadoes can reach kilometers high with gusts of about 160 km/h and last for more than 20 minutes. Flames can rise because when the vortex of oxygen is drawn into the fire core of the tornado, this fire core can have a temperature of more than 1,000 degrees with this temperature it can burn almost anything and anything caught up in it becomes the fuel that sustains the rising fire core. Thereby, a flame in a certain condition depending on the air temperature and convection will create a vertical vortex-like convection like a tornado. The flame that is swept up and up in the vortex may be the flames surrounding the flame that created it, or the fire itself that caused this convection. Fire tornadoes can uproot a tree up to 15m high and burn it, these fire tornadoes can carry fire from one place to another, making forest fires larger because they cannot be extinguished. The pillar of fire is moving except when its oxygen supply is blocked.

8. Glowing Sea

First of all, it must be confirmed that sea water is like normal water completely transparent and colorless. The color of the sea water that we see during the day is actually a reflection of the sunlight created. And at night, instead of being mostly black, in some specific places on Earth, visitors will be able to admire the luminous blue sea water rising through each wave crashing on the sandy shore. This is the phenomenon of blue luminous waves. The phenomenon of the coast glowing blue in the dark always surprises viewers with a series of stunning photos. During a trip to the paradise island nation of Maldives, Taiwanese photographer Will Ho captured a beautiful image of the coast glowing blue like fireflies. The phenomenon of ocean waves with blue luminous color occurs due to the glow of some types of plankton living suspended in sea water. The plankton responsible for the above phenomenon is thought to be marine algae. This marine algae emits a red light during the day and is also the cause of red tides when they bloom profusely in large numbers. At night, they emit blue light. They move in seawater and cause the above phenomenon.

Up to now, the ability to emit luminescence of floating algae has not been completely answered. According to the latest research results, a special substance has been detected on the cell membrane of this plankton. This substance has a special biochemical reaction and is sensitive to electrical signals, which may be the cause of the light. Scientists at Rush University in Chicago confirmed: This algae has all the elements to trigger the glow. It allows positively charged protons to pass through, electrically pulses, which then propagate throughout the protons inside, triggering chemical reactions. It eventually activates a protein called luciferase that produces blue luminous light.

9. Volcanic Lightning

Volcanic lightning is an electrical discharge caused by a volcanic eruption, not from an ordinary thunderstorm. Volcanic lightning arises from colliding, fragmented particles of volcanic ash (and sometimes ice), which create static electricity in the volcanic mass. Volcanic eruptions have been called dirty thunderstorms because wet convection and ice formation drive eruption dynamics and can trigger volcanic lightning. But unlike regular thunderstorms, volcanic lightning can also occur before any ice crystals form in the ash cloud. The first recorded observations of volcanic lightning are from Pliny The Younger, which describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The first studies of volcanic lightning were also conducted at Mount Vesuvius by Professor Palmieri, who observed the eruptions of 1858, 1861, 1868 and 1872 from the Vesuvius observatory. These eruptions often include lightning activity. It seems that this volcanic lightning is emitted directly from the crater. According to scientists, until now that phenomenon remains many mysteries.

A volcano is a hole in the Earth's surface when plasma gas formed under the Earth's crust sprays onto the Earth's surface through the hole, releasing rock, lava, and ash. Despite causing a lot of damage and very dangerous, the scenes when the volcano erupts still creates wonderful displays of sunlight. Scientists have not been able to explain why lightning occurs when volcanoes erupt. They suggest that charged ash molecules emitted during volcanic activity reacted with the air to produce such white flashes. Volcanic lightning and lightning in storm clouds are both formed by the collision of particles. Instead of ice particles colliding in storm clouds, volcanic lightning is made of magma particles. Then, to get lightning strikes, charged magma particles need to separate into different regions in the volcanic ash column. In this chaotic beam, particles of different sizes will fall at different speeds creating different regions of charged particles. Basically, it will create a separate negative and positive area. When there are two areas of oppositely charged particles, the space in between becomes an electromagnetic field that allows electricity to travel through the air. This is how lightning bolts or beams appear in volcanic ash or storm clouds.

10. Aurora

In astronomy, the aurora is a rare optical phenomenon formed by magnetic radiation that forms colorful streaks of light across the sky. In the night sky the lights are produced by the interaction of charged particles from the wind and the Sun with the upper atmosphere of the Earth. Massive eruptions of the Sun create large electromagnetic winds that reach the Earth and are blocked by the Earth's upper atmosphere, and this is called electromagnetic colliding. When such a conflict has created continuous and changing light bands that look like colored silks in the sky. This amazing phenomenon is very beautiful and splendid in the night sky but it is not visible everywhere, only certain regions can see this natural optical phenomenon. These light bands are constantly moving and changing making them look like a colored silk in the sky. This can be considered as one of the most beautiful images of nature. On Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the auroras are produced by the interaction of wind particles in the Sun with the magnetic fields of the planets. They are therefore most pronounced at high latitudes near the magnetic poles.

The aurora in physics is again explained in great detail by colliding electromagnetics. The Sun is located about 150 million km from Earth and directly affects our Earth. You probably know solar storms and these are nuclear reactions with electrically charged particles from the Sun radiating out into space in huge quantities forming a stream of electrical particles flying through space. When this stream of charged particles passes through the planets and among them is the Earth, it will affect the atmosphere. The atmosphere has the effect of blocking harmful rays that come in direct contact with the Earth's surface. The occurrence of this solar storm also causes the aurora to occur. When the solar wind comes into contact with the atmosphere, the electrons present in the atoms in the atmosphere will move to a higher-energy orbital level. When an electron moves back to its orbit and has a lower energy level it releases a light particle or photon. Emission of light from this photon causes the aurora. There are similar phenomena in neon lights, but on a much smaller scale. The aurora appears and has an arc or spiral shape following the flow of the Earth's magnetic field. The colors of the aurora band are different because there are many gases in the air that affect the wavelengths of light, creating so many colorful colors.

11. Waitomo Glowworm Cave - The magical underground starry sky

The Waitomo Glowworm Cave is home to thousands of fireflies that are 40 meters deep. Coming here, many people think that they are floating in the middle of the galaxy with thousands of sparkling stars. The Waitomo Glowworm Cave is located in the town of Waitomo on the North Island of New Zealand. This cave is part of a system of 3 caves including Waitomo, Ruakuri and Aranui. It was discovered by local leader Tane Tinorau and a British inspector Fred Mace in 1887. It was not until 1889 that this place officially became known to many people and quickly became a tourist destination. attractive to many international tourists. In 1906, the New Zealand government officially took over ownership of the cave

Fireflies living in this cave have the scientific name Arachnocampa Luminosa, the light they produce is blue with a little green, not yellow like common fireflies. The larvae glow with the purpose of attracting prey, but accidentally, they form a "unique" natural wonder of the world. So when you come here, you will feel the extremely magical and magical scenery that can not be found anywhere else. In particular, you can only see the Arachnocampa Luminosa fireflies in this beautiful New Zealand land.

To visit the Waitomo Glowworm cave you will usually go through three different levels. The top floor is called the Catacombs (the Catacombs), followed by the Banquet Chamber (Banquet Room) where you can stop to eat and rest. Here you can go higher to admire the Pipe Organ – the largest stalactite block in the cave. Finally, the Cathedral is built on a rough surface with tiles, is quite soundproof and is a common place. famous choir performances take place. Visitors can explore on their own or go on a tour organized by the New Zealand government. You can also take a boat into the depths of the cave to explore this place more deeply.

12. Egg-shaped tape

Many people confidently assert that they have seen all kinds of strange things in life. But wait, maybe they should think again when they witness the following strange phenomenon in Finland. It is the appearance of thousands of ice "eggs" lying on the coast of Finland. This weather event is so strange that it makes many people think of the stones that giants use to make coffee! Pretty bold thinking, but reasonable! Although this sight looks quite strange, but scientists guarantee that this is completely "made in nature" 100%, without the intervention of any magic or aliens.

However, the conditions to be able to form ice like this must be a bit special! The water temperature must fluctuate near freezing point and the temperature of the air is slightly below zero degrees. The weather must also be windy enough to allow small waves to form. This is an important condition because too much wind can prevent the formation of balls and ice can also harden on the shore when there is no wind. In addition, the shoreline must be sandy and shallow.

According to CNN Weather, the egg-shaped chunks of ice that appear on the beach off the coast of Finland are formed by waves near the coast breaking up the soft ice. The pieces are then bonded together at very low temperatures, which are then eroded by waves and winds to create a round, egg-like appearance.

13. Asperitas - Doomsday Cloud

This odd-shaped and terrifying storm-like cloud is known as the Asperitas cloud, or "apocalyptic cloud." Asperitas (formerly known as Undulatus Asperitas) is a distinctive cloud formation, but also quite rarely form the shape of undulating ripples These wave-like structures form on the underside of clouds making it look like the bumpy surface of the sea when viewed from below.

How asperitas clouds form is still a mystery, but there is much debate and confusion about how wave-like clouds are formed. It is theorized that their presence is related to the consequences of convective storms, although they are commonly found in relatively mild natural conditions. Another theory is that they are created when dragon-scale clouds descend in areas of the sky where wind direction changes with altitude causing wave-like motion.

What is clear here is that the atmospheric conditions are certainly not stable for the formation of such a rippling cloud.

Above are the top beautiful natural phenomena on Earth, including some phenomena that scientists have not yet explained. Thank you mother nature for giving us such beautiful natural masterpieces!

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