Why jets leave white trails in the sky04:33

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Published on November 5, 2017

The atmosphere is thin and cold the higher up a plane goes. The exhaust from a plane’s engine is much hotter than the atmosphere. The water vapor from the hot plane engine turns to ice mid-air which we see as white lines in the sky called contrails.

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