Artificial Glory
January 21, 2003
Referred by: Michael Ellestad
Summary authors & editors: Michael Ellestad
As seen on yesterday's Earth Science Picture of the Day, the glory is often observed from airplane windows, but it can also be created artificially. To accomplish this, I took a deep breath and exhaled to form a cloud of water vapor, and because I was positioned in a shaft of light in my barn, the glory appeared around my camera. Diffraction of light in uniform droplets of water (not ice) is responsible for the glory phenomenon.
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