What do clouds on Mars look like? Well, a new video stitched together from images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover offers a glimpse. In this video, delicate red-and-green-tinted clouds are seen ...

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.

What caused these beautiful, iridescent clouds in Sweden? And what makes them so special and rare? Harry Enten runs the numbers on competitive race for House seat in Florida Dodgers Gave Tigers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

rainbow clouds require much more specific conditions described as cloud iridescence. " It usually happens in altocumulus, cirrocumulus, lenticular and cirrus clouds. Iridescent clouds happen becau ...

"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 ...

"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 ...