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What gives clouds their shapes?

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How to Make Clouds

All clouds have the same basic recipe to make cloud take one package of air with water vapor in it and then move it to another area that's different in some way. What gives you different clouds is how that package of air responds maybe you've moved a small portion really fast punching a plume of cotton candy up into the sky like with cumulus clouds. If you find yourself looking up at the clouds with new found wonder there is a way you can help scientists understand them better remember how I said marille worked for nasa's globe program the globe program has been around for over 20 years It's nasa's largest and longest lasting citizen science program about the earth. Over 125 different countries

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