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!
41 comments:
Very cool.
ReplyDeleteShiny!!!
ReplyDeleteI certainly haven't seen a cloud like that before, nor even a picture of one. Very cool looking.
ReplyDeleteEnough with the science, supersonic Pegasus is more likely.
ReplyDeleteWay over your head indeed.
ReplyDeleteHow is it that I understand this?
ReplyDelete"You think the prank worked, Dashie?"
ReplyDelete"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!
ReplyDeleteYeah I sent that in! XD
ReplyDeleteBehind that cloud
ReplyDeleteis a portal to Equestria.
Now all we need is a Double Sonic Rainboom.
ReplyDeleteoh wow...thats beautiful.
ReplyDeleteOh lawd, I want to see this
ReplyDeleteSCIENCE
ReplyDeleteO_O holy**** you guys know what this means :o Equestria is comming fir us...:O
ReplyDelete@Zarkanorf
ReplyDeleteI 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??
ReplyDeleteBut 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".
ReplyDeleteBut because of ponies I just want to keep on smiling forever!
Take me with you Rainbow Dash
ReplyDeleteScience 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!
ReplyDeleteI like when you post this kind of stuff. I inevitably learn a bit more about science.
ReplyDeleteHOLY HORSEAPPLES!
ReplyDeleteThe portal to EQUESTRIA!
Oooh, pretty~
ReplyDeleteA portal to Equestria!!!!
ReplyDeleteTime 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?
ReplyDeleteDash is in Ethiopia???
ReplyDelete*gets on plane*
You can keep lying to us, we are not impressed by you fancy science.
ReplyDeleteWe know the truth.
What caused this? I want to create one and leave my pitiful earthly existance
ReplyDeleteScience Just got cooler by a factor of 1/5!
ReplyDeleteThat is soo pretty. Looks like Dashie was slacking on the cloud bucking though.
ReplyDeleteFor a second I misread Ethiopia as Equestria o;
ReplyDeleteWhatever it is, it seems like a certain winged equine is practicing sonic rainbooms up in the sky!
Mother Nature is a Brony?
ReplyDeleteAmazing!!!
ReplyDeleteDash...take me with you!!!!!!! XD
ReplyDeleteJust saw all the iridescent cloud stuff on YouTube, gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDelete*sigh*
ReplyDeleteIt'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!?!
ReplyDeleteSWEET! :D
I like how you hyperlinked to Ethiopia as if anyone could possibly NOT know what that is.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, yeah, rainbow clouds. That is pretty dang awesome.
The detailed picture makes the cloud look almost like Rainbow's mane.
ReplyDeleteAwesome picture. You should update your link to the permanent link
ReplyDeletehttp://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. :-)