What Is It?

Hard to decide which, but it's a road in Hythe,Kent.

My second guess is that film with Yul Bryner and Tony Curtis. The one where Tony and some aged Cossack leap a canyon. Little know fact, but it was filmed on one of our many pothollled roads.

Taras Bulba - my hero!

Hard to disagreee, But what about John Wayne as Tamujin - 'we shall chase them across the tundra'.....

Movie I haven't seen (among many). Must look it up.

If it's on this planet, my guess is under the Greenland icecap.

Blue sky would indicate our planet.

I'm having trouble believing it is Earthly terra firma though.

I don't recall seeing those colors in either Utah or Arizona.

its absolutly of this world and quite natural

Mariana trench?

I don't see any fish

That's because it's dark.

Well, OK. I looked and I'm calling foul!

Ahmm, these sweeties got it on their faces. It's a beauty.

it may have some slightly enhanced color to highlight contrast

Lest I give it away, I'll just say that the color is added (completely), not enhanced.

I've looked at lots of these, in real time in a past life.

CLUES: it is in fact NOT a canyon but is still considered a Fissure

Fredski! You know your not allowed to post pictures of your B... crack on CR4!

It's on Cestus III, where Kirk fought the Gorn captain.

It's an extreme closeup of the great boy King Tutankhamen's mummy....or possibly his Daddy....

Your first attempt at baking a tie dye rainbow cake?

Alabama farmland after oil spill...

The handsome guy right there, certainly knows how to tell the difference. When you are walking home, how can you tell that you found a chocolate cookie or a dog poop along the way?

You gotta taste it!!!

Nope, it's a cookie

Rather than "What is it", i would suppose, " Where is it"", and that will give you the what.. Hope it not the Zion Canyons that trapped and killed 7 last week….

The 12 people killed were not in Zion NP, but south of there on the AZ/UT border.

I was referring to the 7 hikers who were killed in a keyhole gorge, swept 4 miles down stream by a sudden thunderstorm and local flash flood, in Zion Nat'l Park, not the others you mentioned, who were also washed away by flash flooding, in a different locale. I assume the hikers were within the confines of Zion, as the Park Service said it was in their jurisdiction.

Sorry, my mistake.

You are right. The Keyhole is a deadly place, with no escape during a flash flood, and is inside Zion.

The Mormons were just careless.

That is BEAUTIFUL country. I live just outside of Brice Canyon/Zion for 6 months.

Bryce and Zion (North Rim , Gand Canyon, too)..are two of the prettiest places I have ever visited. That drive into Zion, thru the tunnels with glimpses out into the canyon is to die for. My daughter and friends camped there last spring, and since it was early in the season, with no precipitation, it was, empty and perfect perfect, but cool. You are a lucky person living that close!@

Just for clarity, I should have said "lived" there for 6 months. That was when I was working a temporary job in Cedar City and had a generous housing allowance and weekends off to explore Southern Utah.

One of the guys who worked for me lived in Brian Head at 9,500 feet. Great skiing in the winter, I hear.

I did Google it & was amazed at the answer, would never have guessed that. Fredski deserves the honour of revealing the answer for such a great image.

looks like a close up of my sun damaged skin.

FEI is proud to announce that Martina Dienstleder of the Institute for Electron Microscopy at the Graz University of Technology has been awarded the grand prize in the 2011 FEI Owner Image Contest for her entry "Microcanyon". The image was selected by FEI experts from the three monthly finalists, including "Alveoli" by Oliver Meckes and "Lamnacarus Ornatus" by Angelika Reichmann. Overall, the entries were judged on their aesthetic appeal, application and scientific relevance, and overall creativity. Martina's entry shows a micro-crack in steel after bending tests, and the resulting image inspired her to colorize the micrograph, creating an amazing likeness of a canyon. The image was colorized by colleague Manuel Paller.

Just sayin, ya know!!

Wasn't sure what it was, but it obviously wasn't a PLACE. There are no weather erosions on the surfaces or cracks, no rounded smooth edges.....so I figured it had to be an enlarged image of something small. Anyone who has been out west in the U.S. and has seen the canyon areas would not be fooled into thinking it was a land feature.

Rainbow canyon in UK! Its actually very small, more like 10 cm deep and the top layer of a oil contaminated sand at a beach close to London.

Microscopic view of dried makeup?