Storm on the Rock
This is a photograph of Uluru, in the Northern Territory of Australia, on a hot and humid summer afternoon. As lightning flashed about, torrential rains swept across the landscape and silver rivulets of water began to rush down the sides of the mountain. Uluru is made of red-coloured Proterozoic arkosic sandstones. However, on rare days such as this, the storm clouds and moisture in the atmosphere filter out much of the red end of the light spectrum and make the rock appear purple.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: John Clemens (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
TIFF
Size
54.9 MB
Width
5364 px
Height
3577 px
Aspect
5364:3577
Brand
Canon
Model
EOS 6D
Exposure
65 mm f/8 1/1250 s ISO 400
Taken
16 December 2014
Coordinates
-25.3450, 131.0361
Tint
Moderate blue
Submitted
1 March 2016
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