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Who did this?

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Painting Arches by Derek Kind

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Goldcoast Hinterland

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Layers in a Pedestal Crater in the Eumenides Dorsum Region

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Their pace has quickened. They must have caught our scent. Hurry!

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Forest Pond & Morning of my Dreams by Lauri Lohi

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in what seems like a river of clouds flowing through the grand canyon, an inversion is created when fog formed from the heavy, colder air of melting snow becomes trapped by a lid of warmer air. an inversion this clear in the grand canyon is a once in a decade event, and happened last in 2013. (video)

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Sam Neill and Ewan McGregor recreate an iconic moment from Jurassic Park in this excellent clip from the BBC’s The Graham Norton Show.

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video of a pheonix haboob. a haboob describes a weather event in which a collapsing thunderstorm exhales a burst of wind. this burst of wind, or outflow, collects dust in the surrounding arid environment, which can grow into a towering dark cloud that sweeps across the landscape. 

haboobs are common in the desert southwest and the middle east, where the term originated. (habb is arabic of wind) they are very localized phenomena, as opposed to dust and sand storms, which tend to cover more territory. of note, the plural of haboob is haboobies. (video)

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A sandfall! This is amazing. What might be going on is when it rains in the desert the water isn’t absorbed quickly and mixes with the top layer of wet sand which can form moving sand rivers and waterfalls. (Source)

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The cloud layers moving in different directions makes it look like the sun is rolling across the sky!

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Illuminate (by Adrian C. Murray)

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so my friend’s mom is a baker…

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Display of Angels (by Alessandro Taborri)