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3 of the strangest natural phenomena that still have no explanation
01.05.2023 14:30
Our planet is full of various natural phenomena: breathtaking polar lights, double rainbows, lakes and waterfalls of unusual colors, and so on.
And if some have long been explained from a scientific point of view, there are also those that still remain a mystery of nature.
Star Jelly
We know and can quite accurately predict precipitation such as rain, snow, hail, etc. But it happens that something can fall from the sky that we know absolutely nothing about.
Sometimes people can find a strange translucent jelly-like material in the grass that quickly evaporates. This material is called star jelly.
The substance was reported to fall from the sky. As a result, many myths arose about it falling to earth from falling stars or even alien excrement. The substance was first mentioned in the 14th century. At that time, doctors began to treat abscesses with star jelly.
Scientists tried to study this unusual element and establish its origin. There were guesses that it was a substance of animal or plant origin. But no animal or plant DNA was found in the jelly, which puzzled scientists even more.
Green beam at sunset
This incredibly beautiful and inexplicable spectacle can be observed at sunset. It is necessary to find an open horizon: the sky should be cloudless, and the air should be clean.
At the moment the sun sets behind the horizon, you can see a flash of emerald color. This light effect lasts only a few seconds. From a scientific point of view, it is still not solved.
"Witches' circles"
In the Namib Desert in Namibia, you can see many honeycomb-like patches in the grass growing there. Their diameter varies from two to fifteen meters.
Absolutely nothing grows in these bald patches, and they stretch for 2,500 kilometers. The entire desert is covered with these circles, like a giant carpet eaten by a huge moth.
These circles become even more unusual and mysterious when it turns out that they still have no explanation. But there are quite a few theories about their origin.
Scientists believed that the cause was radiation that contaminated the soil, or perhaps some plants were releasing toxins that affected all the vegetation around them.
Some believe that sand termites deliberately make such holes to collect rainwater by devouring plant roots. And locals even believe that these circles are of unearthly origin - traces left by the gods.
And looking at the unusual and mysterious beauty of these circles, one wants to agree with them.
