From National Geographic News:
Renae Baker, a scientist with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, snapped this picture of a rare nacreous cloud on July 25 at the country’s Antarctic Mawson station.
Nacreous clouds form when the fading light at sunset passes through tiny ice crystals blown along by a strong jet of stratospheric air.
The clouds form only in polar latitudes and at extremely cold temperatures.
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