Another image from out bro's over at Nasa. Have some infos from
their page:
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.
Way over my head, but it looks awesome regardless!
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Very cool.
Shiny!!!
I certainly haven't seen a cloud like that before, nor even a picture of one. Very cool looking.
Enough with the science, supersonic Pegasus is more likely.
Way over your head indeed.
How is it that I understand this?
"You think the prank worked, Dashie?"
"You bet! Says here that they think it's a bunch of water droplets reflecting light in a strange way."
"Those humans are SO gullible!"
"You said it, Pinkie!"
So intense!
Yeah I sent that in! XD
Behind that cloud
is a portal to Equestria.
Now all we need is a Double Sonic Rainboom.
oh wow...thats beautiful.
Oh lawd, I want to see this
SCIENCE
O_O holy**** you guys know what this means :o Equestria is comming fir us...:O
@Zarkanorf
I hope so. It beats saving up for the Equestrian Innovations portal. No offense, Cereal, but I'm not made of bits.
What does it mean??
But yeah, this is the closest natural phenomena I have seen to an actual rainboom. Next we'll just post RD pictures from somewhere in Arizona, won't we? :D
You know before ponies I might have looked at this as "huh, how neat".
But because of ponies I just want to keep on smiling forever!
Take me with you Rainbow Dash
Science is already awesome now it's another 20% cooler. This along with the space shuttle sonic rainboom are just more examples to start investing more in science education and exploration. That's the beauty of our situation there's always one more thing to discover and it makes life all the more weird and wonderful. Imagine if we break the 4th Wall!
I like when you post this kind of stuff. I inevitably learn a bit more about science.
HOLY HORSEAPPLES!
The portal to EQUESTRIA!
Oooh, pretty~
A portal to Equestria!!!!
Time to start walking.
*starts playing the lonely man*
It's a portal. You can't use it. Get mad. Make lemonade. Burn NASA down. Am I missing anything?
Dash is in Ethiopia???
*gets on plane*
You can keep lying to us, we are not impressed by you fancy science.
We know the truth.
What caused this? I want to create one and leave my pitiful earthly existance
Science Just got cooler by a factor of 1/5!
That is soo pretty. Looks like Dashie was slacking on the cloud bucking though.
For a second I misread Ethiopia as Equestria o;
Whatever it is, it seems like a certain winged equine is practicing sonic rainbooms up in the sky!
Mother Nature is a Brony?
Amazing!!!
Dash...take me with you!!!!!!! XD
Just saw all the iridescent cloud stuff on YouTube, gorgeous.
I wonder if whoever came up with the rainboom concept knew of this at the time of writing?
The collective consciousness of bronies is altering reality! The scientific implications alone are staggering.
*sigh*
It's a type of rainbow, almost.
So...theoretically speaking. If a a jet fighter broke the sound barrier at the right time in the right atmosphere (thus disturbing or creating clouds in the right shape), a sonic rainboom IS in fact POSSIBLE!?!
SWEET! :D
I like how you hyperlinked to Ethiopia as if anyone could possibly NOT know what that is.
Anyway, yeah, rainbow clouds. That is pretty dang awesome.
The detailed picture makes the cloud look almost like Rainbow's mane.
Awesome picture. You should update your link to the permanent link
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110824.html
Also check out
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap071125.html
for a more Rainboom-ish look.
I followed the links and found this archive.
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/iridim0.htm
Great pictures there. I didn't know you could make a Sonic Rainboom with a 747. :-)
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