I am a sucker for lovely clouds and these definitely meet that criteria - ready to create your own?
Clouds are floating bundles of tiny water drops or ice bits. Even though they look light and fluffy, a single small cumulus cloud can weigh as much as a giant jumbo jet! [1, 2]
Super-Sized Weight
- Heavyweights in the sky: A normal, fluffy white cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds (500 tonnes).
Clouds on Other Planets
- Space weather: Earth is not the only place with clouds.
- Strange materials: Venus has thick clouds made of stinky acid (sulfur dioxide), and giant planets like Jupiter have clouds made of ammonia. [1]
Fog is a Ground Cloud
- Low neighbors: Fog is just a regular cloud.
- Touching the earth: It forms right at the ground instead of high up in the sky.
- STEAM Lessons featuring Clouds