A cloud so unique that it has its own name

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The Taieri Pet cloud captured by NASA. Credit: NASA

In a mountainous region in New Zealand, elongated lenticular cloud formations form. The clouds are so distinctive that the locals have given them a name: “Taieri Pets.” NASA has now succeeded in photographing such a cloud from space.


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Hier zu sehen ist der Milford Sound auf der Südinsel Neuseelands. Credit: Unsplash/ Aneta Hartmannová

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