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Jyväskylä, Finland

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Morten Rustad - Norway: A Timelapse Adventure | gif by FD

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Iceland by Emma Hall

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I know it’s not Northern, but still! Look at it!

photos by per andre hoffmann in antarctica of polar stratospheric clouds, so named because they form fifteen miles above the earth, a hight which, given the curvature of the planet, allows them to be illuminated after sunset by light reflected from below the horizon.

where the stratosphere is usually much too high for water molecules to remain stable and form clouds, the temperature in the antarctic winter season drops to such an extent that what sparse water molecules are present in the upper atmosphere condense from the pressure drop, forming wide stretches of thin clouds.

unfortunately, these clouds also contain nitric acid, which reacts violently with chlorine released into the atmosphere by industrial processes elsewhere on the planet, causeng holes to form in the ozone layer.  

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“Hier in @visitumea geht im Spätherbst/Frühwinter die Sonne bereits gegen 15 Uhr unter. Nach der Uni-Vorlesung kommt man also hin und wieder in den Genuss dieser herrlichen Aussicht.“ 📸: @an_.di (på/i Umeå University)

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Phoenix from the ashes

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Smooth by Normann Photography http://flic.kr/p/PuQZiY

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Iceland by zac.heat

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Banff, Alberta

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Norway

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Tromsø, Norway

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Mountains of  BC - Morgan Phillips

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Gamla árið........ svo kemur nýtt!!

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Clouds vs Aurorae (by Tor-Ivar Næss)

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The land of fire and ice • Photo by @belleakers #igersiceland (at Iceland)

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Little red cabin on Lofoten Island, Norway. 

Contributed by Christophe Vrankenne.