The first mission, the Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment or AZURE, is scheduled to launch this month. The two-year project will send eight rockets into space from Norway as part of collaboration of scientists known as The Grand Challenge Initiative – Cusp. This is the reason why the glorious light shows can be observed pretty much exclusively in the far north or the far south. They are attracted by the concentrated magnetic fields in the ionosphere around the Earth’s polar regions. Solar flares consist of electrically charged particles. The agency has partnered with Norwegian and Japanese colleagues, and other American scientists, in an effort to generally better understand the Earth’s polar cusp - where the planet’s magnetic field lines bend down into the atmosphere and allow particles from space to intermingle with those of Earthly origin. Looks so unreal, doesn’t it? It occurs in Osoyoos in British Columbia, Canada when the lake which has saline and highly concentrated water evaporates during the summer leaving behind colourful mineral deposits.While the grandeur of the lights attracts an ever increasing number of adventurous lovers of natural beauty, NASA is also busy in Norway studying the forces that cause the Aurora Borealis - both for the pure science and to better understand the “space weather” that can effect astronauts in low Earth orbit as well as GPS and other communication signals. The wind and water have conspired together to create this beautiful valley in China that makes for the perfect landscape. Only that it seems majestic and dangerous.Īlso read: The River From Hell: A Stream Of Molten Lava Is Raging 3000 Km Beneath The Earth's Surface Right Now 10. Petroleum engineers burnt a fire sometime in 1971 in a desert in Turkmenistan and it is still burning. The salt desert gives you the illusion that you are standing on a natural mirror. Usually seen around high-latitude regions like the Arctic and Antarctic, these magical lights are a visual treat.įound at Salar De Uyuni, the world's biggest salt flat in Bolivia is also known as the ‘Heaven on Earth’.

It sounds a whole lot like something out of a sci-fi movie, but if you happen to be Ethiopia, you’re going to see molten lava that is blue in colour.įormed due to the rise in sea level, these underwater caves off the coast of Belize are both scary and intriguing. This may seem like a floating garden but frost flowers are actually all made of ice and shaped like beautiful flowers, and can be spotted in Antarctica. Often called fogbow, also because of the presence of fog, a white rainbow looks just as majestic as the colourful one. These strong trees give out rainbow colours instead of retaining the usual brown trunk. It seems like neon lights but it’s a completely natural event!Īlso read: Bioluminescent Waves Make An Appearance On Mumbai's Juhu Beach And They Are Breathtaking! 2. Visit the Vaadhoo Island in Maldives to see the beach get lit, literally. Here are 11 natural phenomena that are so beautiful that you’d feel like you live in a magical world: 1. There are some natural phenomena that, while they are unusual, are so beautiful and powerful that you’ll feel like nature knows a little magic too. And from time to time, it brings out its wonders before our own eyes. It is far more powerful than man himself.

Nature, they say, has the power to create as well as destroy.

Beautiful azure aurora light phenomena