In this Tuesday, June 19, 2018 filer, clouds are illuminated by the sun setting sun over a church during the 2018 soccer World Cup in Podolsk near Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)
This photograph, taken in Cognocoli-Monticchi on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica on November 14, 2023 shows lenticular clouds above Corsican mountains. (Photo by Pascal Pochard-Casabianca/AFP Photo)
Dancers of the Friedrichstadt-Palast from the show “THE WYLD” pose during a promotional photocall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, June 25, 2015. The 10.6 million euro ($13.5 million) show is the largest production budget in the 95-year history of Friedrichstadt-Palast. (Photo by Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)
A girl peeps at a gate as primary school students enter to attend an open air class near their school building as part of an initiative from the government following restrictions imposed to control the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Kolkata on February 7, 2022. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)
Clouds cover the sky over the Ernst-Taehlmann-Park housing estate after a thunderstorm in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 11, 2021. (Photo by Markus Schreiber/AP Photo)
The sky looked on fire this morning, as it made the clouds glow red, just before sunrise at Peterborough Rowing Lake, in Nene Park, UK on January 18, 2017. (Photo by Paul Marriott/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
A couple walks across the Francis Scott Key Bridge as the setting sun lights up the clouds in Washington, Friday, October 30, 2020. (Photo by J. David Ake/AP Photo)
“Contrails (short for “condensation trails”) or vapour trails are artificial clouds that are the visible trails of condensed water vapour made by the exhaust of aircraft engines. As the hot exhaust gases cool in the surrounding air they may precipitate a cloud of microscopic water droplets or, if the air is cold enough, tiny ice crystals”. – Wikipedia
Photo: An airplane leaves a vapor trail as it flies in front of he moon on January 17, 2007 above Hanover, Germany. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)