My ears pop as the trail wriggles its way up the mountainside and into the clouds.
There were cheers and claps as the shuttle climbed high into the clouds, engines burning with violent intensity.
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Beneath the volcanoes' cones that push into the clouds, lush meadows of wild flowers look like a tourist paradise.
As a young boy, he would gaze into the clouds and suddenly find a human face or familiar shape sketched into the cumulus.
You see the plane you have just left, drift into the clouds (if there are any), and the land is far away but approaching rapidly.
Just on the level of sheer spectacle -- and these are movies we're talking about, spectacle is no small matter -- a flick like "Jack the Giant Slayer" has a lot going for it: a perilous daylong climb into the clouds, a castle in the sky worthy of Hayao Miyazaki, waterfalls that drain into thin air and the delightful sight of a 100-foot chef sneezing into his pastries.
Ahead, rising into the stormy clouds, is Mount Ngauruhoe, the massive volcano better known in the films as Mount Doom.
In coordinated acts of terrorism, two jets crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, collapsing them in clouds of smoke, while another aircraft crashed into the Pentagon.
The idea is to inject clouds of material into the stratosphere, creating a thin haze and deflecting some of the sun's rays away from the Earth, at least temporarily.
Such particles act as nuclei for the condensation of water vapour into the droplets of which clouds are composed.
Vegetables are being chopped at lightening speed, steaming pans are emitting fragrant clouds into the air, and orders are being shouted out in Cantonese.
A. hospital, sending nicotine clouds into the cloudless sky, wondering whether it would be better to have one leg and no arms or, if you were lucky enough to have an arm and a leg left, whether it would be better to have them on opposite sides, for balance.
The village of Vakcince was bombarded, sending clouds of smoke into the air, and Slupcane, another suspected rebel stronghold, was shelled, Reuters said.
One of the film's recurrent grace notes is a coalescing of puffy clouds into concrete forms -- whatever the beholder wants to feel and see.
Vast open-pit mines that spew clouds of dust into the air scar a landscape that locals say was largely pristine only a few years ago.
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Investigators will try to figure out why the plane made such a steep descent into the home and whether the weather conditions -- light rain and low clouds -- played any role, he said.
But as the first stars condensed out of the newly formed atoms, the heat and light they produced would have started to tickle the hydrogen clouds around them into emitting radio signals at a characteristic wavelength of 21cm.
Meanwhile a team of Swiss researchers are harnessing rays of light for an entirely different purpose -- they've figured out a way to create rain clouds by shooting laser beams into the sky.
When Thomas Jefferson described the view from Monticello in 1786, he wrote, "How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!"
The cloud characteristics included differences in the ease with which moist air in the tropics travels into the upper atmosphere, the speed with which raindrops fatten and the level of humidity required for clouds to form.
And dumping nutrients such as iron into the sea would be only one-sixth as effective as either sulphate injection or promoting the formation of clouds.
It will study the clouds of gas and dust that go into making stars and planets.
You can also find out the best time to tweet and dive deeper into tag clouds where you can find out what your community is talking about and its interests.
They spawn by releasing gametes into the water: a female Atlantic oyster tends to release clouds of eggs in a series of wet puffs, while males send sperm forth in a stream.
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Prairie landscapes from 1927 turn a train and tall grain elevators into minimal vertical and horizontal strokes, while roiling clouds and the engine's rising smoke prefigure familiar abstract elements.
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Another would attempt to whiten clouds over the oceans by wafting tiny salt particles up into them.
But if Svensmark was correct, it would mean that periods of high solar output should coincide with reduced cloud formation (due to reduced cosmic ray incidence), which in turn would have a warming effect on the Earth, since less sunlight would be reflected back into space by clouds.
Across quaking peat bogs and through clouds of black, biting flies, we hiked three miles into the backcountry of Newfoundland's austere northern peninsula.
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