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cloud: cumulonimbus lightning: cloud-to-ground Sun Middle clouds(Top to bottom) Altocumulus undulatus, a layer of shaded, regularly arranged rolls; altocumulus perlucidus, a white and gray layer in which there are spaces between the elements; altostratus translucidus, showing the Sun as if seen through ground glass; altocumulus radiatus, a layer with laminae arranged in parallel bands. cloud vortices false-colour mosaic of the Great Red Spot
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ten types of clouds and their elevation: cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altocumulus, altostratus, nimbostratus, stratocumulus, stratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus
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Middle clouds(Top to bottom) Altocumulus undulatus, a layer of shaded, regularly arranged rolls; altocumulus perlucidus, a white and gray layer in which there are spaces between the elements; altostratus translucidus, showing the Sun as if seen through ground glass; altocumulus radiatus, a layer with laminae arranged in parallel bands.
cloud vortices
false-colour mosaic of the Great Red Spot
computer-generated visualization of Jupiter's equatorial cloud layers
Clouds on Mars. The rippled clouds (top) are high in Mars's atmosphere and consist mainly of water crystals with lesser amounts of frozen carbon dioxide. Fog is faintly visible in the lower half of the picture. This false-colour picture is a composite of images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft on June 4, 1998.
clouds on Neptune
An enhanced photograph of Venus, obtained in February 1979 in ultraviolet light by the Pioneer Venus 1 spacecraft, shows the distinctive V-shaped cloud markings of the planet.
View a time-lapse video of cloud formations rolling across the sky followed by a thunderstorm
How do clouds float?
Learn about the four main types of clouds formed at different altitudes
What is cloud seeding and can it be used to fight climate change?
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C.T.R. Wilson, 1927
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