I was watching the ISS Earth live stream and saw a strange cloud formation which looked like a nearly perfect circle. Is this a natural occurring cloud formation? Pic related
aliens.
>>8978928
Yeah they are. I forget what they're called, something like a drop formation I think?
They're actually pretty common, but they're often not visible from the ground. They occur when the water vapor in the cloud is chilled, then once one molecule is excited and freezes, the effect spreads outward uniformly.
Samething as when you chill a water bottle and smack it
>>8979037
Correction on myself,
it's called a Fallstreak Hole:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallstreak_Hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbklyTMwo3I
>>8979037
>one molecule is excited and freezes
>excited
Fucking triggered
>>8979117
yeah the excitation is what prompts the initial growth of the crystal, then the crystallization dominoes outward
>>8978928
extrapolating on the fake ISS cgi footage
>>8979333
Using the word excitation and molecule implies promoting an electron to a high energy orbital putting the molecule into an excited state.
What you described is not along the lines of this but that for ice crystals to form a nucleation site is required, typically dust.
Hence why I was triggered, since one molecule of water can't "freeze" by being excited
>>8978928
Ha ha, very funny.
It's a crater.
Manicouagan, to be precise. Google it.
>>8979896
Oh shit waddap son it's definitely that. You can match the shore pattern perfectly to the OP.
You're based anon
>>8979896
thanks for the clarification, I didn't think that it was a fallstreak hole because of its size. That makes sense.