Tagged: Earth

Stunning fog photos by Mike Hollingshead

Fog is a collection of liquid water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth’s surface. Fog begins to form when water vapor condenses into tiny liquid water droplets in the air.

Unique colorful landforms in China (9 pictures)

Zhangye Danxia Landform is concentrated predominantly in Linze and Sunan counties in Gansu Province. It is both the largest and the most typical of China’s arid area danxia landforms. Zhangye Danxia Landform is surrounded by colorful hills, which seem to rise and fall like waves: with rock strata of different colors mixed in graceful disarray, it is an imposing and magnificent sight. The Zhangye’s palace danxia formations and its colorful hills cover about 300 square kilometers.

Interesting facts about gold

Gold’s many unique properties have secured it a central role in history and human development. For thousands of years it has been used as an ornament of kings, a currency and standard for global currencies, and more recently in a wide range of electronic devices.