atmospheric optics
Apr. 18th, 2004 12:28 amAll kinds of cool stuff: sundogs, Heiligenschein, reflection and reflected rainbows, nacreous clouds.
Just for one example, you know the repeated purple/green fringes you sometimes see on a rainbow's inner edge? Seems they're an interference effect.
HaloSim software renders Martian CO2-crystal halos:

Just for one example, you know the repeated purple/green fringes you sometimes see on a rainbow's inner edge? Seems they're an interference effect.
HaloSim software renders Martian CO2-crystal halos: