contact us

foxyform

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Avocado: Are you missing out on this amazing fruit?

Image
It has stolen the hearts of celebrities—the likes of  Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Victoria Beckham, Tom Selleck, to name a few. In like manner, world fashionistas, socialites and “wellness bloggers” rave about it and what’s more, it has turned into an  instagram  art food. Amazing as it may sound, it is no more than just a simple fruit—the Avocado ( Persea Americana  Lauraceae ). You must have seen an avocado, or even tasted one. If not, you will want to work this wonder fruit into your meal plan for its incredible nutrient-dense value after reading this. Does ‘alligator pear’ ring a bell? For its dark coarse rind, an avocado is also called an alligator pear. ‘Butter fruit’ is it’s another popular name. The next name of this fruit, I bet, will make you grin like a Cheshire cat. Native to South Central Mexico and the Central America dating back to 10,000 years, the native peoples, the  Nahuatl  including the  Aztecs , called this pebbly-skinned pe...
Read more

Barchan Dunes and Lagoons, Southern Brazil

Image
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of Lagoa dos Barros and crescent-shaped barchan dunes on the Atlantic coastline of southern Brazil. Lagoa dos Barros is approximately 4.5 kilometers (2.8 mile) long. The lagoons along the Brazilian coast formed around 400,000 years ago as part of the cyclic rise and fall of sea level—known to geologists as the transgression-regression cycle. The formation of Lagos dos Barros is similar to what occurred alongside Lagoa Mirim, 340 kilometers to the south-southwest. Strong winds blowing in from the Western Atlantic sculpt the sand along the coast into distinctive crescent shapes. Multiple dunes have overlapped and coalesced to form dune fields, with prominent examples visible to the northeast and southwest of the lake. The tips of barchan dunes point downwind, indicating the prevailing wind direction. These fragile formations act as barriers keeping the wind and waves from penetrating inland, blunting the effect...
Read more

Southern Lights near the Great Australian Bight

Image
An astronaut took this photograph of the Aurora Australis in August 2017. At the time, the International Space Station was moving over the southern Indian Ocean towards the Great Australian Bight and Melbourne, Australia. Click here to see a video of the flight over the aurora. Auroras are created in the upper atmosphere when the solar wind (a stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun) interacts with the Earth’s protective magnetic field. Charged particles within the magnetosphere are accelerated down field lines toward the ionosphere, where they collide with different gases (particularly oxygen and nitrogen) and emit light as a reaction. Auroras often appear as neon green, purple, yellow, or red, depending on the gas molecules being excited. Green, for example, indicates collisions with oxygen. Astronaut photograph ISS052-E-63378 was acquired on August 19, 2017, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 22 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facil...
Read more