One of Recent Scenes from Antarctica at In Focus:

Antarctic-clouds
[Photo: Alan R. Light / CC BY]

"Nacreous Clouds over the NASA Radome (a weatherproof structure housing a 10 meter antenna inside). Nacreous clouds (or Polar stratospheric clouds) form high in the dry stratosphere, catching sunlight well after dusk, displaying brilliant colors."

 

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    Martin Adamson

    Not just in the Polar areas, I saw them here in Edinburgh about 15 years back.

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