Friday, May 18, 2012

Observation: Distant mountains............

The magnificent blue mountains limiting the horizon on our way to Hoover dam, Nevada. I was left transfixed with the layers of jagged mountains sporting variable hues of blue. Rummaging through the literature, I got to know that Rayleigh scattering effect is responsible for the misty blue colors. Blue light in the spectrum has the shortest wavelength, thus gets scattered most....

Snow-smeared peaks of San Bernardino  mountains.........


San Francisco peaks in Arizona..........

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