Matter (Color Phenomena)
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Blue Glacier
Snow falls. Layers accumulate. Weight compresses what lies beneath. Air is forced...
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Blue Desert
Low humidity allows shorter wavelengths to scatter cleanly, producing a rich, uninterrupted...
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Red Cinder
Cinder cones are steep, conical hills that usually have a prominent crater...
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Gold Forest
In coastal and inland sand deposits, or dune systems, sand moves constantly...
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Red Lightning
Inside a thunderstorm, ice and water particles collide and separate electrical charge....
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Orange Earth
The Earth’s upper mantle is composed primarily of peridotite — dense, dark...
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Red Plasma
About 4.6 billion years ago, a massive cloud of hydrogen gas collapsed...
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Gold Orbit
Zodiacal light is a faint triangular glow that rises from the horizon...
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Blue Fields
Salt flats form when shallow lakes evaporate in arid climates. Sodium chloride...
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Green Wave
When a wall of water creates a tunnel, and gets backlit by...
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Green Coast
Along steep tropical coasts, coral reefs grow in sunlit, moderate-depth water. The...
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Maroon Sun
Context: Across canyon systems and redrock plateaus, sedimentary stone reveals deep iron-rich...
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Purple Plasma
Lightning forms through the buildup of static electricity within thunderstorms, due to...
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Orange Energy
Coal is not ordinary rock. It began as living forest — vast Carboniferous...
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Green Gravity
Beneath the thin crust of continents and oceans lies the mantle —...
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Blue Tides
Bioluminescent shorelines occur when microscopic dinoflagellates concentrate in coastal waters. Each organism is...
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Green Aurora
The aurora forms when charged particles from the Sun — primarily electrons...
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Nickel Crystals
Some asteroids were large enough to melt internally (mostly from radioactive heating)....
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Purple Horizon
Purple skies occur when red and blue wavelengths coexist in similar proportion....
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Pink Garden
Light pink in nature appears: • In blossoms emerging from branches• In...
