Aircraft contrails and cumulus clouds over a rural landscape. Aircraft contrails (condensation trails) are artificial clouds formed from frozen water

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Aircraft contrails and cumulus clouds over a rural landscape. Aircraft contrails (condensation trails) are artificial clouds formed from frozen water droplets from the exhaust of the engines of an aircraft flying at high altitude in air nearly saturated with moisture. The clouds are shallow cumulus (cumulus humilis) clouds. Photographed on a July afternoon over Berkshire, UK.

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Photo credit: © STEPHEN BURT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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