Mount Etna Eagle, Sicily

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Comment by Siril0 on August 26, 2009 at 12:35pm

Whooooaaa so full of beauty
In graTrudytude for sharing this ONE
Cyril

Comment by Ascending Into Light on August 26, 2009 at 9:44am

Incredible...!

Comment by Golden_Angel_K on August 25, 2009 at 6:37pm

Waooo!....Amazing Pics!! :-)...Thanks guys!

Comment by Tony on August 25, 2009 at 4:24pm

beautiful indeed Trudy....

Here another amazing formation.....

These long, crazy-looking clouds can grow to be 600 miles long and can move at up to 35 miles per hour, causing problems for aircraft even on windless days.

Known as Morning Glory clouds, they appear every fall over Burketown, Queensland, Australia, a remote town with fewer than 200 residents. A small number of pilots and tourists travel there each year in hopes of “cloud surfing” with the mysterious phenomenon.

Similar tubular shaped clouds called roll clouds appear in various places around the globe. But nobody has yet figured out what causes the Morning Glory clouds.

This shot was captured by photographer Mick Petroff from his plane near Australia’s Gulf of Carpenteria.

Image: Mick Petroff/APOD

Source: Wired Science