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- Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:37 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Bay Of Rainbows (APOD 08 Feb 2008)
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Bay Of Rainbows APOD 02/08/2008
A possible explanation for why the Bay Of Rainbows is so named might lie in what I call The Jura Mountain Necklace. Every month the rising sun illuminates the tips of the Jura Mountain range leaving the slopes of the mountains in the dark. This has the remarkable appearance of a necklace of pearls h...