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Aurora and Unusual Clouds Over Iceland

Explanation: What's happening in the sky? On this cold winter night in Iceland, quite a lot. First, in the foreground, lies the largest glacier in Iceland: Vatnajokull. On the far left, bright green auroras appear to emanate from the glacier as if it was a volcano. Aurora light is reflected by the foreground lake Jökulsárlón. On the far right is a long and unusual lenticular cloud tinged with green light emitted from another aurora well behind it. Just above this lenticular cloud are unusual iridescent lenticular clouds displaying a broad spectral range of colors. Far beyond the lenticular is the setting Moon, while far beyond even the Moon are setting stars. The above image was captured in late March of 2012.

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Green green is green they say.. on the far side of the hill. Da daa da da da da da. Green green I'm going away, to where the grass ice and air are greener still.

Beyond wrote:
Green green is green they say.. on the far side of the hill. Da daa da da da da da.
Green green I'm going away, to where the grass ice and air are greener still.

Lovely picture!

From the wikipedia article on Jökulsárlón, the name literally means "glacial river lagoon," and this is a good description. This lagoon has existed for less than 100 years, as the glacier has retreated from the ocean. Glaciers are dynamic creatures!

Awesome, very eerie....looks like another planet....

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"GREEN Acres is the place for me...."


LOL!

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Wow! This string decayed way off center. I thought scientists perused this site? A most awsome photo, however. Nice job!

Confabulated wrote:Wow! This string decayed way off center. I thought scientists perused this site? A most awsome photo, however. Nice job!

Thread, thread! String is something cats play with. Apparently I can't go watch one movie without a random crackpot making a move on the forum.

geckzilla wrote:
Apparently I can't go watch one movie without a random crackpot making a move on the forum.

Random What do you mean by "random"

• A man of genius makes no mistakes.
  His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce » Ulysses » Episode 9 - Scylla And Charybdis wrote:
<<John Eglinton looked in the tangled glowworm of his lamp.

-- The world believes that Shakespeare made a mistake, he said, and got out of it as quickly and as best he could.

-- Bosh! Stephen said rudely. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Portals of discovery opened to let in the quaker librarian, softcreakfooted, bald, eared and assiduous.>>

Well, a deliberate but unknown and anonymous crackpot, then. Definitely not a genius crackpot.