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  1. Special stratospheric clouds today. It's nearly midday on Dec 25 and there's no sun here for another few weeks, but we do get these funky clouds that are very high up in the atmosphere which catch the sun from over the horizon.

    They often turn a rainbow of pearlescent colours, but mostly today they've been leaning into the Trans colours... because Trans rights are human rights :)

    #Norway #Photography #Lumix #Nacreous #PolarStratosphericCloud
  2. Two years ago, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this feathery iridescent cloud after sunset. The color is created by diffraction effects when sunlight is scattered by small CO2 particles in the cloud.

    Full panorama: flic.kr/p/2qJvszB

    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Simeon Schmauß