A report on Cloud

Tropospheric cloud classification by altitude of occurrence: Multi-level and vertical genus-types not limited to a single altitude level include nimbostratus, cumulonimbus, and some of the larger cumulus species.

Windy evening twilight enhanced by the Sun's angle, can visually mimic a tornado resulting from orographic lift

Nimbostratus cloud producing precipitation

Cumulonimbus cloud over the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston, Texas

High cirrus upper-left merging into cirrostratus and some cirrocumulus upper right

Sunrise scene giving a shine to an altocumulus stratiformis perlucidus cloud (see also 'species and varieties')

Altostratus translucidus near top of photo merging into altostratus opacus near bottom

Cumulus humilis clouds over Jakarta, Indonesia

Stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus over Galapagos, Tortuga Bay (see also 'species and varieties')

$Deep multi-level nimbostratus cloud covering the sky with a scattered layer of low stratus fractus pannus (see also 'species' and 'supplementary features' sections)$

Cumulus humilis and cumulus mediocris with stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus in the foreground (see also 'species and varieties')

Towering vertical cumulus congestus embedded within a layer of cumulus mediocris: Higher layer of stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus.

Progressive evolution of a single cell thunderstorm

Isolated cumulonimbus cloud over the Mojave Desert, releasing a heavy shower

Altocumulus lenticularis forming over mountains in Wyoming with lower layer of cumulus mediocris and higher layer of cirrus spissatus

Example of a castellanus cloud formation

Cumulus mediocris cloud, about to turn into a cumulus congestus

A layer of stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus hiding the setting sun with a background layer of stratocumulus cumulogenitus resembling distant mountains.

Cirrus fibratus radiatus over ESO's La Silla Observatory

Altocumulus stratiformis duplicatus at sunrise in the California Mojave Desert, USA (higher layer orange to white; lower layer grey)

Cumulus partly spreading into stratocumulus cumulogenitus over the port of Piraeus in Greece

Cumulonimbus mother cloud dissipating into stratocumulus cumulonimbogenitus at dusk

Cirrus fibratus intortus formed into a Kármán vortex street at evening twilight

Global cloud cover, averaged over the month of October 2009. NASA composite satellite image.

Lenticular nacreous clouds over Antarctica

Joshua Passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant (1800) by Benjamin West, showing Yahweh leading the Israelites through the desert in the form of a pillar of cloud, as described in

Stratocumulus stratiformis and small castellanus made orange by the sun rising

An occurrence of cloud iridescence with altocumulus volutus and cirrocumulus stratiformis

Sunset reflecting shades of pink onto grey stratocumulus stratiformis translucidus (becoming perlucidus in the background)

Stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus before sunset. Bangalore, India.

Late-summer rainstorm in Denmark. Nearly black color of base indicates main cloud in foreground probably cumulonimbus.

Particles in the atmosphere and the sun's angle enhance colors of stratocumulus cumulogenitus at evening twilight

$Total cloud cover fraction averaged over the years 1981-2010 from the CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ data set$

Aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space.

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Actinoform cloud

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Actinoform cloud over the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Here, an actinoform cloud can be seen in the center, while an open-cell formation of stratocumulus clouds is at the center top.

One of the earliest images of an actinoform cloud. Taken by TIROS 5 satellite in 1965.

Open and closed-cell clouds over the Pacific Ocean.

An actinoform or actiniform describes a collection of marine low clouds that takes a distinct shape.

Photograph of Uranus in true colour (by Voyager 2 in 1986)

It has the coldest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System, with a minimum temperature of 49 K, and has a complex, layered cloud structure with water thought to make up the lowest clouds and methane the uppermost layer of clouds.

Noctilucent cloud

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Noctilucent clouds over Daxing'anling Prefecture, China during Summer Solstice

Noctilucent clouds during arctic dawn seen from high altitude

Polar mesospheric clouds over the north pole

Polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by the rising Sun.

These images show measurements of polar mesospheric clouds over the course of one day.

Noctilucent clouds, or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere of Earth.

Polar stratospheric cloud

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A lenticular type II (water) PSC showing iridescence

A stratiform type I PSC (white cloud above the orange tropospheric clouds), showing fine horizontal structures in the veil

Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15000 - 25000 m. They are best observed during civil twilight, when the Sun is between 1 and 6 degrees below the horizon, as well as in winter and in more northerly latitudes.

Mountain

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Elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.

Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa's highest mountain

Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Russia and Europe

Puncak Jaya in Indonesia, the highest mountain in Oceania

Geological cross-section of Fuji volcano

Illustration of mountains that developed on a fold that has been thrusted

Pirin Mountain, Bulgaria, part of the fault-block Rila-Rhodope massif

The Catskills in Upstate New York represent an eroded plateau.

A combination of high latitude and high altitude makes the northern Urals in picture to have climatic conditions that make the ground barren.

The city of La Paz reaches up to 4000 m in elevation.

Chimborazo, Ecuador. The point on Earth's surface farthest from its centre.

The water vapor condenses (forming clouds), and releases heat, which changes the lapse rate from the dry adiabatic lapse rate to the moist adiabatic lapse rate (5.5 °C per kilometre or 3 °F-change per 1000 feet)

Size comparison of GJ 1214 b with Earth (left) and Neptune (right). The actual color of GJ 1214 b is not yet known.

Gliese 1214 b

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Exoplanet that orbits the star Gliese 1214, and was discovered in December 2009.

Artist's impression of the planet with possible deep oceans

Artist's impression of Gliese 1214 b (foreground), illuminated by the red light of its parent star ''(center)'

This artist's impression shows how GJ 1214 b may look as it transits its parent star. It is the second super-Earth for which astronomers have determined the mass and radius, giving vital clues about its structure.

In December 2013, NASA reported that clouds may have been detected in the atmosphere of GJ 1214 b.

Pareidolia

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Tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.

A simple collection of lines may be quickly perceived as a face, and even be interpreted as expressing a particular emotion

Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation.

The Jurist by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566. What appears to be his face is a collection of fish and poultry.

Salem by Sidney Curnow Vosper (1908), a painting notorious for the belief that the face of the devil was hidden in the main character's shawl.

Map of Martian "canals" by Percival Lowell

Given an image of jellyfish swimming, the DeepDream program can be encouraged to "see" dogs

A smiling face on part of a military jet

The Old Man of the Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire

A samurai crab has a shell that bears a pattern resembling the face of an angry Samurai warrior

Face found on a tugboat in Seward, AK harbor.

Because of the pollinating bees, the flower appears to have a face

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Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, seeing faces in inanimate objects, or lunar pareidolia like the Man in the Moon or the Moon rabbit.