A stunning cloud iridescence created a bright silhouette above the mountains in the Philippines. Footage shows the optical ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." What do clouds on Mars look like? Well, a new video stitched together from ...

In January 2023, NASA's Curiosity rover captured images of noctilucent clouds during a Martian sunset, including a rare category of iridescent bright noctilucent clouds that appear feather-shaped ...

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For the fourth year in a row, NASA's Curiosity rover has photographed iridescent clouds drifting across the Martian sky. The clouds appear in the same place, at the same time of year. On January ...

It was a rare instance of cloud iridescence, which is usually at its most visually appealing when occurring in tandem with strong thunderstorms. The storm in question Tuesday night formed over the ...

What our viewers captured is what is known as cloud iridescence. Scientists with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) explained how the iridescence happens in a blog post.

Rainbow clouds occur because of something known as cloud iridescence, explains SciJinks, a website of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "Iridescent clouds happen ...

From the ground, people have often referred to them as "night-shining clouds," because their altitude allows them to keep reflecting sunlight well after sunset. In the summer, these iridescent ...

"We called them 'rainbow clouds' but we understand they are also called "iridescent clouds with rainbow colors," he said. "We had a storm front coming our way from the west and this is what we saw ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact," Mark Lemmon, an atmospheric scientist at the Space Science Institute in ...