Ice clouds sparkle on US national holiday
On the Fourth of July in 2018, ice clouds over Mexico created a festive sparkle in this image of Earth taken from a point four times farther than the Moon. The sparkle comes from horizontally oriented ice crystals that float in clouds and act as a myriad of tiny mirrors. The glint (called subsun) from these crystals appears colorful because the camera captured the red, green, and blue images a few minutes apart, and the Earth’s rotation shifted the location where the camera could see the glint.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Alfonso Delgado Bonal (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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2.9 MB
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1:1
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1800 px
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1800 px
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22.2141, -101.5061
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Black
Submitted
15 February 2019
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