This might look like result of some pro - unwavering CGI , or perhaps even a glimpse into your imagination , but in fact it’sa photograph taken in Antarctica just this last week .
As part of Operation Ice Bridge — a multi - twelvemonth mission to monitor conditions in Antarctica and the Arctic — NASA research worker have just been on a week - retentive sparkler - surveying mission . Along the path , they take plenty of photographs .
This arresting example shows a multi - layered lenticular swarm vacillate near Mount Discovery , a vent 44 miles south-west of McMurdo . NASA explain how they form :
lentiform clouds are a character of wave cloud . They ordinarily organise when a stratum of air near the surface encounters a topographical roadblock , gets pushed up , and flows over it as a series of atmospherical sobriety wafture . Lenticular clouds form at the crown of the waves , where the air is cool and water vapor is most likely to contract into cloud droplet . The bulging sea chicken feed in the foreground is a pressure ridgeline , which formed when freestanding ice floes collided and piled up on each other .
All of which is awesome , but , but … they just attend beautiful , really . [ NASA ]
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