green flash
a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.
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You can see in the video some green flashes just before landing.
SpaceX Starship Prototype Exploded, but It’s Still a Giant Leap Towards Mars | Hugh Hunt | December 17, 2020 | Singularity HubHis mind returned again to the riddles that confronted him: the green flash and the strange mechanism on the peak.
Astounding Stories, July, 1931 | VariousThey saw a green flash stream through the water, and the next moment the model had crumbled to pieces and sank.
The World Peril of 1910 | George GriffithIn about twenty seconds came a roar and a crash of rending steel, accompanied by a vivid green flash.
From Snotty to Sub | Wolstan Beaumont Charles Weld ForesterAt length a brilliant green flash shot up through the smoke clouds over the river mouth.
The Angel of the Revolution | George Griffith
My brother, keeping watch beside the women in the chaise in a meadow, saw the green flash of it far beyond the hills.
The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells
British Dictionary definitions for green flash
astronomy a flash of bright green light sometimes seen as the sun passes below the horizon, caused by a combination of the dispersion, scattering, and refraction of light
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