The Bonneville Salt Flats are a striking sight in daytime. At night the feel can be otherworldly. The darkness of Utah’s West Desert is punctuated here by a lone interstate highway and the town of Wendover, which provides illumination for the salt floor without overpowering the night sky.
The green glow along the horizon is from distant mercury vapor lighting in the Salt Lake City area, while the orange glow is from high pressure sodium vapor lighting.
Photographed about an hour earlier, the salt flats at dusk displays the surface texture of this expanse in a different light (literally!). – Martin van Hemert
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The Utah Bonneville Salt Flats at dusk – Martin van Hemert
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Click link below for Night Sky Panorama – Bonneville Salt Flats (then click picture and move your mouse in any direction for the panorama view):
A teenage Colorado girl whose remains were found dumped in a suitcase in a remote park area last month died from a drug overdose, the local coroner’s office said on Tuesday.
Kelly Mae Myers, 18, was reported missing in the mountain town of Grand Junction in December by relatives who said she may have tried to hitchhike to visit friends in Salt Lake City.
Police believe Myers died at a hotel in West Valley City, Utah, and that her body was then taken to the Cactus Creek area of Colorado. They have named two people of interest in her death.
A Utah police officer who killed his wife, their two children, his mother-in-law and then himself received text messages from his wife just hours earlier threatening to leave him and take their kids and confronting him for raping her, new documents show.A Spanish Fork Police report shows Joshua Boren and his wife exchanged heated texts the night and morning before the January killings.
In them, Kelly Boren confronted her husband about raping her and told him their marriage was over, The Deseret News reported (http://bit.ly/1oC8lWG ). The couple already had been separated for some time.
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FILE – This undated file photo released by the Lindon City Police Department shows police officer Joshua Boren from Lindon, Utah. Authorities say Boren used his service weapon when he killed his wife, two children and his mother-in-law before turning the gun on himself in January. Spanish Fork City Police Lt. Matt Johnson says the agency’s investigation was unable to determine Boren’s exact motive. But he says investigators did learn the 34-year-old Boren and his wife were having marital problem
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The Utah Bonneville Salt Flats at dusk – Martin van Hemert
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