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

Enjoy it while you can: In a few million years, the nebula will be gone, evaporated by its fierce stellar progeny like a fleecy windblown cirrus cloud on a summer afternoon,

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

The pedicels of all the cirri are thickly covered with bristles.

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

Males, two, lodged in cavities on the under sides of the scuta; pouch-formed, with four unequal, rudimentary valves: no mouth: cirri not prehensile.

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

Montagu states, that the whole shell and body of animal, when fresh, are pale blue, with the cirri spotted with brown.

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

Margarita, five to seven pairs of epipodial cirri with a pigment spot at base of each.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

C, Highly magnified view of one of the cirri.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various