The Earth Story

Cloud shadows Supercell cumulonimbus clouds some ten km high are casting shadows hundreds of kilometres long as dawn or dusk illuminates the surface of our blue marble as seen from the best vantage point of all: the International Space Station. Loz Image credit: Reid Wiseman

Shadows on the Dolomites

Shadows extend from Striped Butte - a single remote peak, more than 40 kilometers from the badwater road, in Death Valley National Park. The “Striped” pattern of this butte is formed because it is made of folded and faulted paleozoic sedimentary rocks, similar to the rocks found to the East in the Grand Canyon, just more folded.

Cloud shadows Supercell cumulonimbus clouds some ten km high are casting shadows hundreds of kilometres long as dawn or dusk illuminates the surface of our blue marble as seen from the best vantage point of all: the International Space Station.  Loz Image credit: Reid Wiseman