The most Martian sky of Abrera

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Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
14 December 2023 Thursday 21:55
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The most Martian sky of Abrera

* The author is part of the community of readers of La Vanguardia

This photographic series in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos belongs to the sunrise this morning from the sunset of my house in Abrera, in Baix Llobregat.

It almost looks like an image of Mars, red predominates in the sky and even surrounds the reflections. As the sun rises, the colors fade, but without taking away its charm.

This reddish color is due to the candilazo, a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors that ranges from pink to the most intense orange.

As part of the phenomenon of dispersion of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closer to the horizon, the light that reaches the Earth is soft tones between red and orange.

In a certain way, when this light passes through the clouds, it illuminates them and could be said to color them with those tones.

The candilazo is also known as arrebol, which is the red color seen in clouds illuminated by the sun's rays, especially at dawn and in the evening.