The Red Rain At Idukki, Kerala

Kerala red rain
2007 School Wikipedia Selection. Related topics: Modern history
The red rain in Kerala was a sporadic observed phenomenon in the state of Kerala in southern India from July 25 to September 23, 2001. There was heavy rain, the rain was almost red, dirty clothes and looked like blood. Yellow, green and black rains were also reported.

Initially, rain was thought to be colored by fallout from a fictitious meteorite rupture, but the Indian government discovered that rain was locally colored by fertile aerial algae spores. Was outsourced. Then, in early 2006, after media reports reported the suggestion that it was an extraterrestrial cell proposed by Godfrey Louis and Santosh Kumar at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, the colored rain of Kerala suddenly hit the world. Attracted the attention of the inside.
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Kottayam district in Kerala, where the most heavy red rain fell
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Kottayam district in Kerala, where the most heavy red rain fell
The colored rains in Kerala first fell on July 25, 2001 in the southern districts of Kottayam and Idukki. Some reports suggest that other rain colors were also seen. More red rains were reported in the next 10 days, then less frequently until the end of September.

According to locals, the first color of rain was followed by loud thunders and flashes, followed by a mass of trees that shed wrinkled gray “burnt” leaves. The disappearance and sudden formation of dead leaves and wells were also reported in the area at the same time.
The color of the rain is due to the red particles floating in the rainwater, and when it rains, the red rain can be dyed like blood. It usually descended into small areas of less than a few square kilometers, and was sometimes localized so that normal rain could fall within a few meters of red rain. The red rain usually lasted less than 20 minutes. First report
Immediately after the first red rain, scientists at the Center for Global Sciences (CESS) and the Institute for Tropical Botanical Gardens (TBGRI) determined that it was the particles that colored the rainwater, the media reported. .. , A type of spore. Then, in November 2001, CESS and TBGRI, on behalf of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of India, succeeded in growing the rain in Kerala into algae that form the lichen of Trentepolia in the medium by algae spores. We have published a report that concludes that it has been colored. Genus. These algae have been found to be associated with tree lichens in the Changanacherry area. The
report also found that the rainwater was free of meteorites, volcanic or desert-origin dust, and that the color of the rainwater was not due to dissolved gases or pollutants. The report suggested that heavy rains in Kerala in the weeks leading up to the red rain may have caused widespread growth of the lichens that occurred.