A Rare Sun Halo With Rainbow Colours Witnessed In Bengaluru Skies
Bengaluru people witnessed a unique sun halo on May 23 that lasted about an hour and attracted the citizens to take pictures and enjoy the view. Identified as ‘22 degrees halo,’ the effect formed circular rainbow with a radius of approximately 22 degrees around the sun. Soon, the social media was flooded with several pictures of the optical phenomenon. Notably, the city witnessed similar experiences in last week also.
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Spots Rainbow Like Phenomenon On Mars
The red planet has baffled scientists yet again as a rainbow-like phenomenon was recently spotted by NASA's Perseverance rover. Several debaters on Reddit have speculated it to be either an ‘icebow’ or 'dustbow,' resulting from light's scattering off dust particles. However, claiming 'Definitely not a rainbow' NASA experts says the artifact could possibly be ‘lens flare’ caused by the lights entering the camera lens and randomly dispersing.… read-more
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