Top 15 Natural Phenomenas That Make Earth Look Like Another Planet
Top 15 Natural Phenomenas That Make Earth Look Like Another Planet
Do you think the country is predictable? Think again. Our planet hides miracles so bizarre, so visually stunning that they would easily focus on the extraterrestrial landscape. From the shining seas to the desert painted in souls, these scenes look more like sci-fi film sets than real places.
Here are the 15 best natural phenomena that make Earth look like a different planet - and each is 100% real.
1. Depression Danakil - extraterrestrial hell in Ethiopia
Boiling acidic pools. Neon Green Lakes. Sulfur steam openings. Danakil's depression is one of the hottest, driest and most amazing places on Earth. It looks like Venus surface - and scientists even study it as an extraterrestrial model.
2. Horye Danxia Mountains Zhangye Danxia - Chinese Rainbow
These striped mountains in China are not painted. They are naturally made up of layers of red sandstone and minerals pressed together for millions of years. Result? Rainbow hills colored so vivid that they look digitally rendered.
3. Salar de uyuni - Bolivie's mirror on the sky
The largest salt apartment in the world will turn into a perfect mirror during the rainy season. When you go through Salar de Uyuni, it looks like you float in the sky. It is so different world, NASA uses it to calibrate satellites.
4th Lake Natron - Tanzanie's Periphicify Waters
This blood-red lake is as deadly as stunning. The Natron lake is full of salt and alkaline chemicals that keep animals in the statues. Red? These are algae. A terrifying silence? Directly from the Martian nightmare.
5. Glowworm cave - Star Underground of New Zealand
Enter the Waitermo caves and think you have fallen into the galaxy. Thousands of Glowworms light up the ceilings like stars. Soft blue-green light creates a scene that is more suitable for deep space than deep ground.
6. Time clouds - Ufos in disguise
Smooth, disk and perfectly stacked-Czech clouds form high above the mountains and look exactly like flying plates. Even experienced pilots considered them alien crafts. They are stunning, rare, and make the sky feel ... watched.
7. Flood Falls - Antarctica frozen red vein
The Glacier in Antarctica escapes with a cool red current called Blood Falls. It is not blood, but salt water rich in iron turns red when it is oxidized. On the ice white surface, it seems that the Earth bleeds - or hides something deeper.
8. The eye of the Sahara - a giant, spiral secret
The Richat structure in Mauritania is visible from space and looks like a perfect circular crater - but it is not due to an asteroid. It is a huge, eroded dome of the rock, 30 miles wide, which resembles a cosmic fingerprint.
9. North and southern lights - Kosmice dancers
Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis lights up the sky with glowing ribbons green, pink and purple. These sunlights are, as a response of the Earth on the Milky Way -jestate, mysterious and magnetic.
10. The door to hell - Turkmenistan eternal fireplace
In the Karakum desert, the crater has been burning for more than 50 years. He called the door to hell, was created when the gas field collapsed and woke up. Flames never came out - so it looks like Demon's portal carved on the ground.
11. Ice Bubbles - Canadian frozen time bombs
In lakes, such as Abraham Lake, frozen methane bubbles are captured under the ice. They look like a 3D jellyfish, perfectly preserved. But if they appear or illuminate? They explode - beautiful and deadly, as well as something from another world.
12. Bioluminescent beaches - shining blue coast
In places such as Maldives, Puerto Rico and Thailand, some beaches shone with electric blue at night. This is caused by small organisms called dinoflagellates. When they are disturbed by waves or traces, shines like magic - or alien.
13th.
This flat boundary of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana. His steep sides rise as a fortress. Mount Roraim inspired the "lost world" - and really feels as if it belonged to another planet, shrouded in the clouds and a home for rare species.
14. Superbylts - rotating storms
Giant, spinning clouds that resemble a spacecraft or monsters. Superbuns are strong thunderstorms that rotate and often form tornadoes. Looking from a distance they don't look like the weather - they look like an extraterrestrial invasion.
15. Blue hole - Belize is a deep abyss
A large blue hole off the Belize coast perfectly round and 400 feet deep looks like a portal to another dimension. Its deep, dark center is surrounded by a clear reef - it makes it an incredible dive and a stunning look from above.
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