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The Glory of Venus

  • June 19, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Like a rainbow, a glory appears when the sun shines on cloud moisture, but it looks like a ring of colored circles instead of an arc. In July 2011, a European Space Agency probe that’s been studying Venus captured the first-ever image of a glory on another planet.

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