Natural Phenomena Collection (page 40)

Part of the Grand Canyon, Marineris Vallis, on Mars, 1976. This view was taken by the Viking Orbiter 1 spacecraft. The canyons are some 4000 kilometres long and are over 6 kilometres deep in places

View of Mars, August 1976. Taken from the Viking 2 Orbiter, this photograph shows the large Ascreaus Mons volcano swathed in clouds of ice crystals in the top right corner

Colour-enhanced view of Saturn, 1980. Taken from the Voyager 2 spacecraft. The enhancement brings out the details in the cloud bands

The planet Saturn, 1980. This picture was taken from Voyager 1 at 34 million kilometres and shows clear detail in Saturns rings

Close up of Saturns rings, 1981. Taken by Voyager 2 the clear ring structure can be seen as well as the distinct gap in the rings

Full view of Saturn and her rings, 1980. This picture, taken from Voyager 1 at 34 million kilometres, clearly shows the cloud patterns on the planet and the gap in the ring system

Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814. Artist: Lester
Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814. Negro slaves washing for alluvial gold watched over by a slave master brandishing a whip

Total solar eclipse, 1851 (1857). Bue Island, Norway, 28 July 1851, at the end of totality, with light just beginning to return

Observing a total solar eclipse, 1851 (1857). Members of the Edinburgh expedition on Bue Island, Norway, with their instruments set up ready for viewing the eclipse which occurred on 28 July 1851

Meeting of the Thing (Icelands Democratic Parliament) in AD1000. Woodcarving showing meeting of Vikings at the annual Althing making, decision to embrace Christianity and on right

Kinder Downfall on Kinder Scout, Peak District, England, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Kinder Downfall on Kinder Scout, Peak District, England, 20th century. A huge plateau of peat moorland with weathered gritstone rocks

Geyser at Hverageroi, Iceland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Geyser at Hverageroi, Iceland, 20th century. Part of the Hengill central volcano, this geothermally active area experiences very frequent (usually minor) earthquakes

Ofaerfoss waterfall and Eldgja forge, Central Iceland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Ofaerfoss waterfall and Eldgja forge, Central Iceland, 20th century. Ofaerfoss waterfall in the Eldgja canyon, Iceland. The largest volcanic canyon in the world

Waterfall at Steall, Upper Glen Nevis, Invernessshire, Scotland, March, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Waterfall at Steall, Upper Glen Nevis, Invernessshire, Scotland, March, 20th century. Known variously as An Steall Ban, Steall Waterfall or Steall Falls is situated in Glen Nevis near Fort William

Ofaerofoss Waterfall in Eldgja (Fire Gorge), Central Iceland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Ofaerofoss Waterfall in Eldgja (Fire Gorge), Central Iceland, 20th century. Situated in Eldgja, the largest volcanic canyon in the world discovered by Porvaldur Thoroddsen in 1893

Gullfoss, Iceland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Gullfoss, Iceland, 20th century. A tiered. catarcat waterfall in a canyon of the Hvita river in southwest Iceland, Gullfoss is a popular tourist attractions

Dettifoss, North Iceland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Dettifoss, North Iceland, 20th century. Dettifoss is a waterfall in Vatnajokull National Park in Northeast Iceland, and is one of the most powerful waterfalls in Europe

Basalt cliffs beside Dettifoss, North Iceland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Basalt cliffs beside Dettifoss, North Iceland, 20th century. Dettifoss is a waterfall in Vatnajokull National Park in Northeast Iceland, and is one of the most powerful waterfalls in Europe

Dettifoss from NE, Iceland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Dettifoss from NE, Iceland, 20th century. Dettifoss is a waterfall in Vatnajokull National Park in Northeast Iceland, and is one of the most powerful waterfalls in Europe

Curetes Street, leading to the State Agora, Ephesus, Turkey, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Curetes Street, leading to the State Agora, Ephesus, Turkey, 20th century. The Curetes was one of the most important streets of ancient Ephesus, an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia

The ruins of temple E at Selinunte
The ruins of doric temple E at Selinunte, and the ruins of another temple, probably destroyed by an earthquake

Site of King Solomons Mines in the Neggu desert, 10th century BC
Site of King Solomons Mines in the Neggu desert, from Solomons Pillars, 10th century BC

Landscape with Lightning, 1660s. Artist: Gaspard Dughet
Landscape with Lightning, 1660s. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa, c1829-c1831. Artist: Hokusai
The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa, c1829-c1831. From the series 36 Views of Mount Fuji. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The Seashore, end of the 1860s early 1870s. Artist: Charles Francois Daubigny
The Seashore, end of the 1860s early 1870s. Daubigny, Charles-Francois (1817-1878). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Padma Sambhava, 1924. Artist: Nicholas Roerich
Padma Sambhava, 1924. Padmasambhava was an Indian sage who is said to have introduced Tantric Buddhism to Bhutan and Tibet in the 8th century

Waterfall in Iceland
A waterfall in north Iceland

Curvature of the Earth, 1764. Left: because of curvature, M cannot be seen by the ship at B, but can be from ship at C. Right

The Argonauts finding the Golden Fleece, 1556
The Argonauts finding the Golden Fleece, a fleece placed in a spring by the Colchians to collect alluvial gold dust, 1556

King Canute trying to turn back the tide, early 11th century (early 20th century). Canute (Sveinsson Knut) (d1035) was King of England from 1016, Denmark from 1018 and Norway from 1030

Foucault using his pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth, Paris, 1851 (1887). Leon Foucault (1819-1868) demonstrating the rotation of the earth using a freely suspended pendulum in

Missionaries showing the King of Siam a solar eclipse. The missionaries are projecting an image of the eclipse through a telescope onto a white surface and astounding the King and his court

Victoria Falls, Africa, 1857. Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873) was the first European to see the great falls on the River Zambezi in 1855

Victoria Falls, Africa, viewed from the east, 1866. Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873) was the first European to see the great falls on the River Zambezi in 1855

Entrance of Yosemite Valley, California, USA, c1875. Yosemite was designated as a state park in 1864, then made a national park in 1890, together with surrounding territory

Waterfall in the Yosemite Valley, California, USA, c1875. Yosemite was designated as a state park in 1864, then made a national park in 1890, together with surrounding territory

Theatre de la Gaite, Niagara Falls, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Theatre de la Gaite, Niagara Falls, 1892. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 13th February 1892

Hubble Space Telescope above the Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was put into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery, mission STS-31, on 24 April 1990

Transparent Solar System, educational plate, c1857. The chart shows the path of Halleys Comet in 1835, as well as the orbits of the planets and some of the asteroids (planetoids) discovered up to 1857

Ezekiels vision of a chariot in the sky and a hand in the clouds holding out a book to him, 1804. Ezekiel was one of the four great Hebrew prophets

Ezekiels vision of chariot in sky, c614 BC
Ezekiels vision of chariot in sky c614 BC. Ezekiel was one of the four great Hebrew prophets. One modern explanation for the vision seen by him, is that he observed parhelia (mock suns)

Apollo, Ancient Greek god of music, poetry, archery, prophecy and healing, 1798. Apollo depicted as the perfection of youthful manhood. Laurel was his plant

Earthquake in Thebes, 1893. Artist: Henri Meyer
Earthquake in Thebes, 1893. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 17th June 1893

Comet of 1456 (Halley), 1557. The English astronomer, Edmond Halley (1656-1742) was the first to suggest that appearances of bright comets every 76 years were in fact sightings of the same comet

Comet of 684 (Halley), 1493. The English astronomer, Edmond Halley (1656-1742) was the first to suggest that appearances of bright comets every 76 years were in fact sightings of the same comet

Warren de la Rues photograph of total solar eclipse at Rivabellosa, Spain, 18 July 1860. Artist: Warren De La Rue
Warren de la Rues photograph of total solar eclipse at Rivabellosa, Spain, 18 July 1860. This was the first solar eclipse to be photographed, using the Kew Photoheliograph

Comet 1892a, Swift, May 1892. Artist: Max Wolf
Comet 1892a, Swift, May 1892. From a negative photograph by German astronomer Dr Max Wolf (1863-1932). The image was not converted to a positive to avoid any loss of detail

Discharge in Geissler tubes containing rarefied gases, 1887
Discharge in Geissler tubes containing rarefied gases. Investigations of these phenomena led to the discovery of cathode rays, x-rays and electrons. From A. Ganot Natural Philosophy. (London, 1887)

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