Image 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.
