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condensation

  • Airplanes leave trails of condensation in the sky. (Wikimedia Commons)
    Airplane Contrails
    Walker Rhea
    Have you ever seen a perfectly cloudless sky? Cloudless--that is--except for two or three long white lines smeared across the perfect blue sky by airplanes like smudges on a pane of glass.