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Follow the Contrail

  • March 6, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Contrails, short for condensation trails, are the long, skinny clouds left by jet planes flying in below-freezing temperatures. Made of ice crystals that form from water vapor in the jet’s exhaust, they are found all over Earth, even in remote places like the South Pole!

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