cirrus
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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
Meyers’s lines grew icy and severe, distant and distinct, a contrail mingling with the cirrus clouds.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
It was still clear, but a thin, wispy scum of cirrus had spread across the upper atmosphere, and a dark line of squalls was visible just above the southwestern horizon.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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
These spines are often doubly serrated or plumose: many of them on the protuberant segments of the first three pair of cirri, are sometimes coarsely and doubly pectinated.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Colours.—Valves internally tinted, in parts, grey; peduncle, brown; corium of sack, purplish-brown, of peduncle, rich coppery brown; cirri, banded dorsally, and with the front surfaces of the segments, purplish-brown.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Gibbula, with jaws, three pairs of epipodial cirri without pigment spots at their bases, British.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
All the five posterior pair of cirri resemble each other more closely than is usual.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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