cirrus

The most likely explanation is the presence of thick but uneven water ice clouds, similar to cirrus clouds high in Earth's atmosphere -- an unexpected complication.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026

Those harmless-looking vapor trails sometimes spread out to form thin cirrus clouds.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

The remaining, thinner cirrus clouds would allow more long-wave radiation emanating from Earth to escape to space.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2023

Brilliant red, orange and scarlet sunsets often take place in the presence of higher cirrus or altocumulus clouds instead of low-level clouds such as stratus or stratocumulus.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023

"Now, get along with you," she said softly, and looked at him, half regretfully, with eyes as violet as the cirrus clouds, high in the dawn sky.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

They are constructed like ordinary Cirripedia, and have a mouth, thorax and cirri, enclosed in a capitulum, supported on a peduncle of moderate length and narrow.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

The cirri disappeared by degrees, and the cumuli towered up on the horizon in colossal masses.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

The wind went down with the sun; silver-edged cirri lost their glitter, and swift was ...

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson

This species agrees with P. elegans, in the presence of the singular elbowed teeth, on some of the spines in the first three pairs of cirri.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

Pedicels of the first four cirri, caudal appendages, penis, the two posterior thoracic segments, the segments of the cirri, and the trophi, clouded, banded, or spotted, with blackish purple.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin