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Friday, September 15, 2006

Crepuscular Rays....


With the last three days of rain I have been thinking about how great it would be to see the sun again so I dug up this on my favorite Wikipedia….

“Crepuscular rays are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds, are parallel columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. The name comes from their frequent occurrences during twilight, when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious. Various airborne compounds scatter the sunlight and make these rays visible. The reason we see the light so defined is because of diffraction, reflection and scattering.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Science

Stay dry....Kimdianna Jones

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Creptacular! Nice picture too.

11:42 a.m.  
Blogger Corinne Simpson said...

Why does something so pretty have a name that sounds suspiciously close to "crap"? I don't get science, man...

:)

6:08 p.m.  

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