And no one thinks so! There are more important things to do …
At least, it looked more than creepy - although we are talking about an ordinary sunset … But it just reminded of something else, very unpleasant. According to eyewitnesses from the scene in the United States: "At sunset something strange happened to the Sun - it stratified, one part went beyond the horizon, while the other continued to shine." All this looked like a nuclear mushroom - which Kiselev was friendly to the Americans from the TV screen …
California sunsets are famous for their unusual shapes due to temperature inversion, which distorts the shape of the star over the cold ocean surface. But in this case, the vertical temperature profile was a puff cake. The sun's rays have undergone multiple refractions.
While some layers of the solar disk went beyond the horizon, others remained in the observer's field of view. The sunset of each highly compressed image of the full Sun was accompanied by a green flash. A couple of walking whales added some romance to the sunset. See for yourself:
The green ray is a rare optical phenomenon that can be observed for only a few seconds in a clear sky and transparent atmosphere at the moment the solar disk disappears behind the horizon, or when it appears above it. This is due to the decomposition of white sunlight into a spectrum as it passes through the atmosphere. In this case, the layer of the atmosphere plays the role of a prism in the well-known experiment of Newton.
The essence of the phenomenon is explained by the different degree of refraction of light waves of different lengths in a transparent dense medium. It is scientifically proven that blue refracts more strongly than red. At sunset, the entire disk turns red due to the absorption of short-wavelength light waves. As it descends beyond the horizon, red rays go up. But due to their low scattering ability, we hardly see them, the sky remains blue and gradually darkens. Then rays of yellow appear, followed by green. We see them for several seconds.
The last are rays of blue and even purple. However, due to their high absorption capacity, they can be seen extremely rarely, only in a very transparent atmosphere. Therefore, most often the last sunbeam is green. At sunrise, the reverse sequence of events occurs. The first ray is blue-green, then yellow is added to it, then orange, and the last is red.
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Let's watch the video with the "nuclear sunset":