jtotheizzoe:

Frozen Glass

I was pretty shocked to find out just how little liquid fresh water Earth contains, like we saw in this post. But I was equally shocked to find out that as much as one-fifth of Earth’s fresh water is locked up in the beauty above: Lake Baikal.

Siberia’s Lake Baikal, not only the world’s oldest lake at ~25 million years of age, is the largest single fresh water source on the planet. The water is so deep and so pure that when it freezes it becomes a sort of cold, turquoise glass, giving an observer a lens that can see over 100 feet straight down.

There’s more pictures not to miss at My Modern Met.

vurtual:

Morning Mist (by Michael Poliza)

spiral-art:

Patrick Dougherty

wild-placephotography:

Snow leopard by Wild Place Photography

(Do not remove credit, this photos belongs to Wild Place)

aristtaroxxx:

empusa fasciata by ~lisans

tumblropenarts:

by MARGOL /shop/ 

animalsonearth:

LLAMA Lama guanicoe

Least Concern

tigersandcompany:

Amur tiger (by wwmike)

unimportant:

omfg so cute, look at the baby

jtotheizzoe:

“Worth The Wait” by Tor-Ivar Næss from 500px.

It’s a gorgeous, cool late winter night here in Austin, TX … or as close as we have to winter, anyway. But sadly, this far south, all of the auroras I’ll see are on my computer screen.

If you’re stuck without and exciting sky to look at too, relax with my video all about the science and beauty of auroras.

Then reply with your favorite aurora photo!