Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Airglow

This is not an edited photograph. It is NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.


It was taken by Jeff Dai after a thunderstorm over Bangladesh in late April. The picture shows the air over Tibet and China. NASA says that "The unusual pattern is created by waves of alternating air pressure that can grow with height as the air thins, in this case about 90 kilometers up."

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