If you see Hollywood film Ghost Rider on TV or cinema, then you have a chance to see the amazing place on the face of this planet in real life. Racetrack Playa is a place in California which is acknowledge due to unexplained sailing stones. It is a mysterious dessert in which the stones move from their original places without any visible force or without human or animal intervention, leaving track behind them.
It is located in one of the flattest places on the face of this planet. It is 3608 feet above the sea-level, 2.8 miles (4.5km) long (north-south) by 1.3 miles (2 km) wide (east-west).
The common reason behind the rolling stones is that once a year the ‘Playa’ or flat desert pan experiences bimodal rainy season (summer and especially winter) and becomes slippery as the hexagonal desert floor turns back to mud. During this time the boulders and rocks displaces from their places leaving prominent visible tracks behind them. Although scientists believe that high winds are responsible, some of the rocks will suddenly change directions and move almost perfect right angles to their previous direction.
The amazing thing is that these stone movement have never being captured on camera .Must bewilder that in this technological era why time lapse photography hasn’t been used?
Racetrack stones only move once every two or three years and most tracks last for three or four years. Another hypothesis is coated that as the rain water, accumulates strong winds blow thin sheets of water quickly over the relatively flat surface of the playa. A layer of ice forms on the surface as the temperature at night falls below freezing point. Wind then drives these floating ice sheets, their aggregate inertia and vast area providing the necessary force required to move the large stones.
A recent theory claims that ice collars form around the rocks and when the local water level rises , the rocks are buoyantly floated off the soft bed . The minimal friction allows the rock to be moved by light winds.
However, the real cause behind the sailing stones is not been confirmed. The reasons are not sure and are ongoing with the researches.
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