Watermelon snow

Watermelon snow fell in the Sierra Nevada, California





Watermelon snow has many names: red snow, snow pink, bloody snow.
He falls in the mountains and has a pinkish color and a faint smell of watermelon, all because of the algae Chlamydomonas (Chlamydomonas nivalis), which stained the snow and give it a distinctive taste.













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