Peter and I were walking along Sunset Cliffs tonight and decided to stop with the abundance of people watching a sunset. At the very end I saw something very similar to the picture above.
I was speechless. I looked to Peter and said is that a green flash?Since when was the green flash a real event?!?!
I had to look up what was going on. Here is what I found.
"Just as the setting Sun disappears completely from view, a last glimmer appears startlingly green. The effect is typically visible only from locations with a low, distant horizon, and lasts just a few seconds. A green flash is also visible for a rising Sun, but takes better timing to spot. The Sun itself does not turn partly green, the effect is caused by layers of the Earth's atmosphere acting like a prism."
-NASA
Who knew? This world continues to amaze me.
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