There are the puffy cotton ball-like clouds against the blue sky — those iconic cumulus ... for cloud watching — the window seat on an airplane. From a plane, clouds look like something ...

If you’ve ever looked up at a mostly blue sky and seen straight white lines criss-crossing the horizon, or watched a plane puff out ... contrail is an artificial cloud,” says Steven Barrett ...

If there are no contrails or clouds surrounding it, the plane is moving against a completely uniform blue sky. This can make it very hard to perceive just how fast a plane is moving. And because the ...

One recent day, I walked to my perch and watched a plane make its way ... its contrail still lingered in the sky above San Francisco. Some people enjoy watching clouds, but I prefer contrails ...

The tweet's caption read, "From the sky ... wide shots out of an airplane window. We also had the satellite images from Zoom Earth that showed a dark spot in the clouds above East Palestine ...

But the behavior of these lab-based cloud particles mimics the behavior of cloud particles in massive sky-sweeping clouds, only in miniature. “Of course, we don’t grow them at quite the same scale you ...

On December 2, 2024, a striking natural occurrence mesmerized onlookers over Wichita, Kansas, as two unique formations known as cavum clouds appeared in the midlevel sky. These fascinating ...

At first, Juliane Koepcke paid little mind to the darkening clouds ... as the sky turned from blue to black with about 20 minutes remaining in the Dec. 24, 1971, flight. Soon the plane started ...