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Steve Price
Draper, UT USA
04/15/2023
04:02 pm

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Google Pixel 5 phone.

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Cropped.

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I had walked outside to get the mail and there were iridescent high altitude clouds below the afternoon sun.

Wiki says - Iridescent clouds are a diffraction phenomenon caused by small water droplets or small ice crystals individually scattering light.

I do appreciate the science and physics behind their occurrence, but the beauty of them is enough for me.