Cirrus clouds can form when water-droplet-rich clouds rise and cool into ice-crystal-rich clouds. The wispy billows in the satellite photo likely formed at high altitudes along the jet stream ...

Read on for more information on the 10 basic cloud types and photos to help identify them. Cumulus Clouds. ... Cirrus clouds are “detached clouds in the form of white, delicate filaments, ...

The advantage of the CATS data, seen in orange in this image, is that it provides a 3D view of cirrus clouds. The clouds span from about 33,000 feet to 43,000 feet (10 to 13 kilometers).

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A thin layer of high-level clouds draped across the sky Sunday evening helped make for a beautiful sunset. The fact that today was the coolest day in a few weeks and the hu… ...

Wispy, feathery cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere are typically seen in fair weather, ... If rain is falling from the cloud in the photo, it is technically a cumulonimbus cloud ...

Share your own photos of the sun halo through Chime In. According to the National Weather Service , a halo results from light refracting off ice crystals present in a thin layer of cirrus clouds.

Cirrus clouds don't just form and die, but can regenerate, detailed images of ice crystals show. The pictures are some of the first results to come out of the Tropical Warm Pool International ...

Cirrus clouds don't just form and die, but can regenerate, detailed images of ice crystals show. The pictures are some of the first results to come out of the Tropical Warm Pool International ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A fiery sunset wrapped up the first weekend of November, and the clouds had everything to do with its gorgeous hues. CBS3 viewers captures some stunning images of the sunset ...

The clouds on Mars resemble the thin ice-crystal cirrus clouds found in Earth's atmosphere. The images, taken by the rover's Navigation Camera (Navcam) on July 17, offer the best view yet of such ...

The luminous halo was created by light reflecting off tiny ice crystals from cirrus clouds — thin and patchy clouds that form between 20,000 and 40,000 feet (6,100 and 12,200 meters) above Earth ...

Satellites can't see everything, and so NASA is asking people around the world to take pictures of clouds in the sky and submit them to help verify orbital observations.