Glory

Here is a picture of the optical phenomenon called Glory, which most of us have seen but may not have noticed. The picture was taken from a flight while the blogger was flying from Dubai to Los Angeles, and he got the picture from somewhere over the North Pole of Earth. Wkipedia gives the following definition for Glory - “A glory is an optical phenomenon, appearing much like an iconic Saint's halo about the head of the observer, produced by light backscattered (a combination of diffraction, reflection and refraction) towards its source by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets.” You can read more about Glory in the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)