Posted on December 29th, 2011 by admin
Red Sea is a bay in the west of the Arabian Peninsula, which separates Asia Continent with the African continent. In the south, the sea is open between Babul Mandib and Bay of Aden. While in the north, the sea has resulted in the Sinai Peninsula and the Suez Canal. In a widest place, distance between the two sides of the sea is about 300 km. Red Sea has a length of 1,900 km with its deepest point approximately 2,500 m. Red Sea is also a habitat for a variety of water creatures and coral. Although the sea is still often associated with stories of the past, but until the 20th century, Europeans still call it by name “Arabian Bay”, while Herodotus and Ptolemy called it “arabicus Sinus”. The water in the red sea really is not much different from water in other seas.
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Posted on December 10th, 2011 by admin
Rainbow is one of the natural phenomenon that is formed resembles a circle (or semicircle arch). But in Idaho we can find a uniquely shaped rainbow, resembling flames of fire, so named after the fire rainbow. Fire rainbow also called by the name circumhorizon arch, and does have fundamental differences with the arch of the rainbow that we usually see.
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Posted on December 9th, 2011 by admin
Light Pillars is a phenomenon that leads to light up and look like pillars of the sky that shines upward without clear from. This is a visual phenomenon created by the reflection of light from ice crystals near the surface that is parallel horizontal field. The light may come from the sun, usually occurs at sunset so that this phenomenon is also often referred to as sun pillar. This phenomenon can also be caused by the moon or from sources of light in the earth (terrestrial) such as street lights.
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