Nacreous Clouds, Iceland



       


  Nacreous clouds over Iceland. Ólafur Þórisson photographed this spectacle at dawn on 18th February 2005. The sky is filled with wavy polar stratospheric clouds, PSCs in which the bright nacreous clouds (Type II PSCs) are embedded. Another image. Image ©2005 Ólafur Þórisson, shown with permission