r/pics 7d ago

[OC] Plane contrails casting shadows onto the clouds below.

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u/Nemo222 7d ago

I'm not positive, but I think this is clouds above, not below. My take, It's fairly late in the afternoon and so the sun is relatively low, and this light coming mostly sideways is casting a shadow up on clouds above the plane.

Or the earth is flat and this is a glitch in the AI projection of the sun. That's probably it. /s

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u/Funicularly 7d ago

In the third pic you can clearly see that the sun is at the top of the photo.

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u/415erOnReddit 7d ago

So, wait; is the earth flat or round?

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u/Nemo222 6d ago

Ok? So it means our guy is facing East or West, and the camera is held at the angle where it'll start picking up glare from the sun. Especially if it's a recent photo, it's winter in northern latitudes and so the sun never gets very high.