north pole
Guardian 3 December 2005: Weatherwatch by Tim Radford.
The sky, Nansen reports "is like an enormous cupola, blue at the zenith, shading down into green then into lilac and blue at the edges. Over the ice fields there are cold, violet blue shadows, with lighter pink tints where a ridge heere and there catches the last reflection of the vanished day." The stars shine, a large yellow moon among light golden clouds floats on the blue background. And then, to cap it all this glory the aurora borealis "shakes over the vault of heavens its veil of glittering silver - changing now to yellow, now to green, now to red."
The sky, Nansen reports "is like an enormous cupola, blue at the zenith, shading down into green then into lilac and blue at the edges. Over the ice fields there are cold, violet blue shadows, with lighter pink tints where a ridge heere and there catches the last reflection of the vanished day." The stars shine, a large yellow moon among light golden clouds floats on the blue background. And then, to cap it all this glory the aurora borealis "shakes over the vault of heavens its veil of glittering silver - changing now to yellow, now to green, now to red."
posted by reinhardt danzig at 11:59 am
0 comments
