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Credit & Copyright: Esther Havens
(Light the World)
Explanation:
Yes, but how many dark clouds have a multicolored lining?
Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a
pileus
iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size
and
so together
diffract
different colors of sunlight by different amounts.
The
above image was taken just
after the
picturesque sight
was noticed by chance by a photographer in
Ethiopia.
A more detailed
picture of the same cloud shows not only
many colors, but unusual dark and wavy bands whose origins are thought
related to
wave disturbances
in the cloud.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: clouds - color
Publications with words: clouds - color
See also:
- APOD: 2024 November 19 Á Undulatus Clouds over Las Campanas Observatory
- APOD: 2024 July 7 Á Iridescent Clouds over Sweden
- APOD: 2023 August 20 Á A Roll Cloud Over Wisconsin
- APOD: 2023 February 12 Á Mammatus Clouds over Nebraska
- Nacreous Clouds over Lapland
- A Retreating Thunderstorm at Sunset
- A Blue Moon in Exaggerated Colors