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psychonaut

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Horseshoe Lake in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains of southern Colorado. Need 4x4 to get up here, about 12000+ ft, tons of native trout. This area gets about 15-20ft of snow pack in the winter then all melts in the summer to reveal this beauty!

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t-dub

Vapor Sloth
An ethereal, glowing spot appears on Saturn’s B ring in this view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. There is nothing particular about that place in the rings that produces the glowing effect — instead, it is an example of an “opposition surge” making that area on the rings appear extra bright. An opposition surge occurs when the Sun is directly behind the observer looking toward the rings. The particular geometry of this observation makes the point in the rings appear much, much brighter than would otherwise be expected.

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