Clouds made of sand make for a strange kind of rain on this hot planet
On Earth, clouds and rain are made of water. But the James Webb Space Telescope has found that on a planet called WASP-107b, the rain and clouds are made of sand.
A faraway gas giant planet that's famous for being strangely "puffy" appears to have clouds that are made of tiny bits of sand.
The sand likely acts as water does on Earth, falling like rain towards the planet's hotter interior and then evaporating back up to form clouds once more, according to a new report published online by the journal Nature.
The discovery showcases one of the many kinds of bizarre clouds that scientists say probably
